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May 12, 2005 at 11:08 am #5730
Vadim Smirnov
Keymaster

    I’m not sure but I think the problem is that LeechFTP uses passive FTP mode (bot connections are established by client).

    In this case:

    1) client sends command PASV to server.
    2) server start listening newly allocated port and responses with command PORT with its number.
    3) client connects to this port => data channel is established.

    I would recommend you to try some other FTP clients to check this issue, an example integrated into Windows http://ftp.exe. If I remember fine then explorer and IE also uses passive mode by default, but http://ftp.exe does not.