i guess that would only be helpful info if the OSX ftpd didn't support PASV and the windows based clients i was using happened to be set to only use PASV. I just verified that wasn't the case, PASV was not enabled on the windows clients, and they still couldnt connect.
Let me preface this by saying I know absolutely zero about macs. I'm pretty decent with Linux however so if the answer involves editing a conf file or something, that's fine.
I set up the ftpd on OSX. I can connect to it fine and log in from the windows xp command line client. However when I...