I Need A Small Favor

I need a small favor from someone. I need someone to try to FTP to my computer. Either run FTP from the command prompt and do "o 136.176.110.49" and see if it connects or use an FTP program like WS_FTP etc. If it does, enter anonymous for user name and anonymous for password and see if it lets you in. If it does do that as well, tyep dir and see if any files are listed, there should be.

The reason I'm doing this is I'm trying to use IIS to set up my machine as an FTP server. If it works, I have about 48mb or wallpapers. 48mb zipped worth of OSX icons and other stuff. I have around 400mb worth of OSX emulation stuff on here and if this does work I'm going to go ahead and start putting a ton of my stuff up so that users can get it off of FTP.

Please let me know if this works, thanks.

~Flyakite

#14514

Hi flyakite,

I could neither ping nor connect to your FTP.

C:\>ftp
ftp> open
To 136.176.110.49
> ftp: connect :connection refused.

C:\>ping 136.176.110.49

Pinging 136.176.110.49 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 136.176.110.49:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

#14519

Hmm... well it works WITHIN the school on my end at least. The problem is I'm behind a proxy server. If anyone knows how to setup IIS correctly so that the rest of the world can get to my computer please let me know because it works on my friends computer here but it hasn't worked for someone outside of the school yet.

I don't know whether I should use different ports or what. I've only done this once before and it was a LONG time ago and it was on a computer that wasn't behind firewalls or proxy servers.

If you know how contact me through:

MSN: flyakite19@hotmail.com

AIM: flyakite19

Yahoo: flyakite19

Thanks.

#14523

Originally posted by flyakite@Feb 10 2003, 05:59 PM
Hmm... well it works WITHIN the school on my end at least. The problem is I'm behind a proxy server. If anyone knows how to setup IIS correctly so that the rest of the world can get to my computer please let me know because it works on my friends computer here but it hasn't worked for someone outside of the school yet.
I don't know whether I should use different ports or what. I've only done this once before and it was a LONG time ago and it was on a computer that wasn't behind firewalls or proxy servers.
If you know how contact me through:
MSN: flyakite19@hotmail.com
AIM: flyakite19
Yahoo: flyakite19
Thanks.

im sorry to say its probably impossible to do so

i, too, am behind the school proxy server and any computer on the school network can ftp my computer (with the proper id and password ofcourse) but no one outside the school can get in. my friend tried doing the same with his computer on his school network, and had the same trouble. but if you set up an apache webserver, i think it MIGHT work, cuz he started doing something like that.

thats my story, and im sticking to it

#14529

Thanks sakasune. I'll have to talk to the Technology HelpDesk here and see what they say. I'm just going to tell them that I want to set it up so I can access some stuff on my computer here from my house. I mean, I have Windows 2000 Server and all that software too, so if I have to I can set my laptop up to be a dedicated, crappy server. Oh well, I'll look into the options. Thanks for your help.

#14531

no problem, let me know if you can get it to work, because i would like to get mine accesible to the outside world

#14576

i had a similar problem and there are a few good ways to get around this but all require you have a box sitting somewhere off the network forwarding requests through securecrt or wingate or the likes. you set up wingate , say on your home computer and log into it from your school, then you set it up to forward requests to port 21 to your box behind the proxy. there are ways to do this that will slow the connection down and ways to not slow it down, i just dont remember which ones do which. my recommendations are simply to try and see what works.

#14747