[Coco] Rainbow on Tape or Rainbow on Disk

[Aaron Wolfe]

Actually I was talking about the sqlbbs link, not yours Brian, sorry.
But if yours also can't do passive mode, might be best to try and find
another option.

I can host anything coco related and noncommerical for free, send me a
private message.

-Aaron

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:
> We've had discussions like this in the past...
>
>
> On 3/19/2012 9:43 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>
>> It appears this FTP site does not support passive mode, which is the
>> default in pretty much everything these days.
>
> No, it does not. Not a setting I can change since I'm not paying for a
> premium hosting account.
>
>
>>
>> If you want to use the site, looks like you'll have to enable active
>> mode, which may not be possible for you depending on your
>> router/firewall configuration.
>
> Yep
>
>
>
>>
>> Hosting a public FTP site that doesn't support passive mode means most
>> of your potential users simply won't be able to connect, and will give
>> up.  Highly recommend the site operator sorts that out.
>>
> Like I said, there are aspects about the FTP I cannot change since I refuse
> to pay $99/month for premium hosting for a hobby site I cannot make a return
> investment off of. And since I have no high speed internet available where I
> live, hosting my own is out of the question.
>
> Users of Firefox and Chrome should have no problems accessing any of the FTP
> files. If a user/password window appears, just click okay and you should get
> right to it. Users of IE8 should have no problem with the link for IE8 -
> except maybe a little slowness...
>
>
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