Re: FW: flexfax: whfc (My turn :-) )

[Damian A Ivereigh <damian@cisco.com>]

Hmm, since the protocol is basically an extended FTP protocol, I wonder
if it has the same problem going through firewalls and proxy devices
that FTP does. I.e. in ftp you have to use passive mode, so that the
data connection is always opened from inside the wall.

You could also be suffering from TCP/IP masquerading - where the IP
address from inside is not what programs see from the outside - I think
the FTP protocol actually sends the IP address within the protocol.
Again maybe a passive mode would fix this.

Damian

Charles J. Boening wrote:
> 
> I too was having similar problems.  I got it working from home ok, after
> fixing the entry in the hosts file, but not at work.  The difference at work
> is that my workstation is behind MS Proxy Server.  When I try to establish a
> connection, I get a response that the server is ready (the same one you get
> if you telnet to the server) and then it times out with an error to the
> effect "no route to host"
> 
> Also ... I can't seem to get it to logon as admin.  it always says "bad
> password".  I've tried setting up the user in the hosts file, but no dice.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:jonc@pinnacle.co.nz]
> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 1998 8:31 PM
> To: Fred Ng
> Cc: Hylafax
> Subject: Re: flexfax: whfc
> 
> On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Fred Ng wrote:
> 
> > I have configured a hylafax server. However when I logon from whfc
> (windows
> > client application), it keep saying that password is incorrect, no user
> can
> > login to the server, can anyone confirmed on which part of the server had
> > went wrong.
> 
> You need to set up the HylaFAX hosts(4f) file to allow access from
> your WHFC client. Check out the man page for more details.
> 
> Jonathan Chen
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