FTP proxy usage from Linux?

[araisovich]

We're considering buying this product to facilitate FTP proxying, but so far we can only get the FTP proxy to work from Windows clients only -- trying to use it from a Linux machine, we only get the Wingate banner, and no prompt for credentials. The client "freezes" for a few minutes, and then we get the message:

[root@myserver ~]# ftp myproxy.somewhere.com
Connected to myproxy.somewhere.com.
220 WinGate Engine FTP Gateway ready
[note: here it pauses, and then after a few minutes...]
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
No control connection for command: Illegal seek
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
Name (myproxy.somewhere.com:root):

at which point Wingate has disconnected the client (seen via Gatekeeper).

To purchase this product, we'd have to know (eg, successfully test) that Linux clients are supported. Unfortunately, we must use the actual FTP proxy, and not something like curl or wget through the HTTP proxy. Can anyone give me an idea of where I may be going wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[adrien]

Hi

There are several ways to get FTP working through WinGate for clients.

If using the FTP proxy (i.e. client connects to proxy, or is intercepted by proxy), then only USER/PASS method of login is supported. If you needed to use kerberos to a server, you'd need to use NAT (i.e client connects to end server, connection NOT intercepted by FTP proxy).

The NAT driver supports FTP natively (i.e. modifies PORT and PASV commands to allow it to go through the firewall).

Regards

Adrien