Hi Heather, and others,

Thanks for the

 > So I tried setting the PORT/PASV setting in NetFinder
 > to PORT and NetFinder had no trouble downloading the
 > file.  I then tried downloading it with IE 5 again.  This
 > time it worked.  It seems that NetFinder somehow can
 > change a setting in the Internet control panel that IE 5
 > uses.

Somewhere in a public free control pannel of moderate
size or, better, in IE's *own* haystack of settings can
you not find a setting (to PORT access) that will allow
IE to get files from:

  ftp://topo.math.u-psud.fr/pub/lcs/fb/FBdigests2001/

????

You see, a folklore fairy tale has it that security
enthousiasts started recommending that PASV access be
forbidden after a Microsoft thinktank researcher
published "piza thief", a hairbrained plan to do mischief
with PASV.  Spreading hairbrained rumours that damage
your employer's software as well as his rival's software
is not reasonable behavior.

On a slightly different tack, the Mac applications NCSA
Telnet, and Fetch were once tested OK by me for access to
above server. Also telnet and ftp and lynx under unix.
Which other apps manage?

Incidentally, my overly optimistic sysop reasoned I
believe that the new explicit warning that PASV access is
refused should automatically cause a PORT access to be
attempted.

Cheers

Laurent Siebenmann