Samapico Posted June 4, 2007 Report Posted June 4, 2007 OK I want to host a small ftp server on my computer... I have the software and everything is set up... I'm living in university residences... so all computers within the university, or the residences have the school as ISP... So there are a lot of limitations with the external world. For example, it seems they are blocking inbound connections on FTP ports (I tried 20, 21... I heard 2121 was FTP too but it made my server crash ?!)On all computers in the university network, I can connect fine... but outside, no. Is there any way to get around that? Or any free services available that would allow me to do that? I don't need alot of bandwidth or disk space... Basically it would be to share files for school projects with the rest of the team.
»doc flabby Posted June 4, 2007 Report Posted June 4, 2007 (edited) You can run an FTP server on any port, any decent FTP server software will not crash if u run on a different port. try a really high one like 43252 as they are not always blocked, more likely the problem is the university prevents all incoming connections. Edited June 4, 2007 by doc flabby
Samapico Posted June 4, 2007 Author Report Posted June 4, 2007 hmmm yeah... I can't host a SS zone eitherOnly me can connect to it
Drake7707 Posted June 4, 2007 Report Posted June 4, 2007 (most) universities/colleges have firewalls that block all inbound connections, unless they are on an ignore list (browsing, mail, updates for progs are all outbound)
Samapico Posted June 4, 2007 Author Report Posted June 4, 2007 yeah i pretty much knew that... so... no way to get around this?
rootbear75 Posted June 4, 2007 Report Posted June 4, 2007 ask your University Network Admin or a representative, or go to the IT department, etc... ask around
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