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Posted by =?Utf-8?B?SmFzb25E?= on August 28, 2006, 12:17 pm
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Thanks for the reply. I use McAfee anti-virus. I may search up on that.
The pecular thing is that when I disable the XP firewall completely, I have
no delay.
Anyways, I've found another way around this using PuTTY, so I probably won't
look too hard into it.
Thanks again.
-Jason
"Ben Miller" wrote:
> Jason,
>
> Sure, you can open a port. Just make sure you are very careful when
> defining the scope.
>
> This link will help you configuring this:
>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/smallbusiness/prodtech/windowsxp/cfgfwall.mspx#EWEAC
>
> However, from what you are describing, I don't think it is a port problem.
> If you are eventually prompted for username and password, then the connection
> has successfully been established.
>
> What anti-virus do you have installed? I have heard of some issues
> revolving around FTP, XP SP2 and McAfee Anti-Virus, but cannot find the link.
>
> You might want to also have a look at this link:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842242
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> -Ben
>
>
> "JasonD" wrote:
>
> > I am running a XP pro machine with the windows firewall enabled. I want to
> > regularly FTP or RCP a small file from this XP machine to a single Linux
> > machine, but when I initiate the connection, there is around a 30 second lag
> > before I am prompted with a request for a username (using FTP). When I turn
> > off the XP firewall, there is no 30 second lag. I've tried opening all the
> > FTP ports on my XP firewall, but it's not fixing the problem. I'm not
> > familiar with how this is working, but it seems that when I try to initiate
a
> > connection to this Linux machine, the Linux machine then tries to talk back
> > to the XP machine, but is being blocked by the windows firewall. Is there
> > some port that I can open up (just to this Linux machine) that will allow
> > this "reverse connection"?
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