can connect to ftpd via command line, but not windows app

[robroth]

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 try to log in using a GUI client such as filezilla or leechftp, it fails. All machines are on the same subnet and I've tried this from two different desktop XP machines. Command line client works, GUI client fails.

Here the command line output:
C:\>ftp testmail.xxx.com
Connected to testmail.xxx.com.
220 testmail.xxx.com
testmail.xxx.com.xxx.com FTP server (tnftpd 20040810) ready.
User (testmail.xxx.comnone)): andrew
331 Password required for andrew.
Password:
230-
Welcome to Darwin!
230 User andrew logged in.
ftp>


The output when connecting via GUI is:
Connecting...
Connected to testmail.xxx.com, waiting for response...
220 testmail.xxx.com
USER andrew
Could not login to testmail.xxx.com

Never got a password prompt or anything else. Thanks for any ideas.

 

[chornbe]

The Windows FTP client doesn't support passive connections, if that's a consideration.

 

[robroth]

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.