Re: FTP Server with Norton Internet Security 2003

From: John Elsbury (johne@snospam.sovereign.co.nz)
Date: 10/18/02 

From: johne@snospam.sovereign.co.nz (John Elsbury)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:20:14 GMT

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 18:11:00 +0100, Morgan Pugh
<morganpugh@ntlworld.MOC> wrote:

>Can someone tell me what I need to change/add to enable access to my
>ftp server? I want any IP Address to have access for uploading and
>downloading. I keep getting messages about there being an attempted
>trojan intrusion on my system when i try and connect. The FTP server
>is on port 21 however i get the same when i put it on other ports
>(mainly because NIS2003 blocks pretty much every port as there is a
>trojan for every port!)

The software is doing its job. Any good firewall will block all ports
by default and only open the ports the user requires (and specifies) -
and may report attempts to access those ports as exceptions, if
configured to do so..

If you want to allow ftp traffic through your firewall then you errm,
need to reconfigure the firewall to let ftp traffic through.
Exactly how you do this is, presumably, covered in the firewall
documentation.

FWIW the firewall I use has a configuration wizard which would make
this trivially easy (if I were to want to do this, which I don't), but
yours may not.

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