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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 12th Mar 2008 14:25
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First of all, I have been able to use FTP fine, with no problems.

Since yesterday, it seems, FTP has stopped working. I can not connect to any of my FTP servers. Windows Explorer does not work, filezilla does not work, etc. etc.

The only thing I installed was DOOM 3.

The only other idea I have is that a windows update installed some kind of new firewall update or a patch which has buggered FTP up.

If it isn't that, then its Windows being dumb.

And yes, the FTP address is correct, my username and password are also correct.

This is annoying me because I can't update my site or send out files to people who need them.

Would anyone have any ideas besides the ones I have stated, on why FTP has packed up?

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Dazzag
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Posted: 12th Mar 2008 14:30
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Try using the command prompt. Will hopefully give a better error message.

Amusingly I just had a problem right then with an old FTP script I use for a job on our Unix systems at work. Was because I hadn't updated the script to have the new password. Doh.

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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 12th Mar 2008 14:56
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The command prompt brings back an unknown error number :\

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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 12th Mar 2008 15:14
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Guess what, I read this post and found out it's IE acting weird for some reason. So I used firefox, which I never knew had a ftp feature.

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Quote: "I had the "FTP Folder Error" problem too. It was only in IE but the ftp://user assword@ftp.ftp.com worked in Firefox.

This is what I did to make the error go away:

From "My Network Places", I clicked "Add Network Place" and then I entered my ftp URL in the subsequent dialog. After doing this, the ftp access error went away from IE.

Also, I use FileZilla which was not working either along with IE. But fixing the IE ftp access fixed FileZilla too. I guess FileZilla taps into the same winsock APIs that IE uses."


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