I would just do yourself a favor, forget ftp, and just use 'sftp' (its part of your ssh server). Then you only have to worry about opening up the ssh port. man sftp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol ftp can be a pain - but if you really need it, this might help: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/ftp.html Dan On 3/2/07, Joey Rockhold <joey.rockhold at gmail.com> wrote: > Found a partial answer: > > Charter Communications blocks all the common ports, ie 21 is among them. So > I changed it to port 4021. I can connect, but I cannot see the directory > because (I am assuming) port 4020 still is not getting out. I am getting > the message "425 Can't open data connection". > > - Joey > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Joey Rockhold <joey.rockhold at gmail.com> > Date: Mar 2, 2007 9:47 AM > Subject: IPCop, FTP server > To: TCLUG List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > > I have set up a FTP server on my home network. Internally, I can connect to > it and everything works fine. From outside, I cannot get to it at all. I > have been trying to google how I should set up my IPCop firewall, and trying > various things, but I am missing something somewhere. Any suggestions? > > - Joey > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >