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Itay Moav -Malimovka
Asked: 2012-04-01 08:16:03 +0800 CST

"enable passive mode in your FTP client" What does it mean, and how I do it

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I tried to connect to a different machine with FTP.
I continually get

500 Unable to service PORT commands
ftp: bind: Address already in use

The solution I got was to enable passive mode in my FTP client.
What does it mean, and how do I do it?

ftp

1 Answers

  1. If you are using the command-line ftp client, invoke it as pftp or ftp -p instead, which will enable passive mode. If not, find the documentation for your FTP client and search it for "passive mode". This link contains a detailed explanation of passive mode.

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