[olug] Installfest thanks and a question

[Brian Roberson]

Adam just did a great frontpage howto, hopefully he still has an electronic
copy, and I will put it up on the site..... ADAM?? ;-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Wiese" <bwiese at cotse.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] Installfest thanks and a question


> :) Since I'm ignorant as to how frontpage whatever works, you've got me
> stumped.  If it is indeed a firewall problem, the only thing that comes to
> mind is possibly trying out portsentry.  It listens on ports to see if
> anyone is trying to connect/scan you, and it can then log that and block
> them.  I personally haven't used it (yet), but from just dnld'n and
> installn, it doesnt look to complicated. <shrug> (I've been deceived
> before though too...) :)
>
> Anyone else have frontpage knowledge?  Does it somehow try to reconnect to
> the host by some means?
>
> good luck
> Brian
>
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:37:33 +0000
>
>
> Joe Mastandrea <joem at sarpy.com> wrote:
>
> > Brian,
> >
> > Thanks again.  We do suspect the server, since we tried to ftp in from
> > elsewhere and that didn't work either.
> >
> > However, from the alternate location she could use Frontpage to get into
>
> > her servers (three of them), but she can't use Frontpage to get to them
> > through the firewall.  What's intersting is that she could get Frontpage
>
> > through the old RH6.0 firewall to all three sites, but she gets an
> > "Unexpected Error" dialog box through the RH7.1 firewall (aren't M$
> > dialog boxes halpful?  I didn't think so, either).   We suspected the
> > firewall because the Frontpage and ftp problems showed up at the same
> > time as the firewall upgrade (little did we know the ftp server would
> > have problems).
> >
> > We're still investigating getting the Frontpage part.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joe
> >
> >
> >
> > Brian Wiese wrote:
> >
> > >On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:36:15 +0000
> > >Joe Mastandrea <joem at sarpy.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>Brian,
> > >>
> > >>Thanks for your prompt reply.  Yes, "passive mode" is enabled.
> > >>
> > >>Joe Mastandrea
> > >>
> > >
> > >and it's still not working? perhaps the server is not allowing passive
> > >mode? check the server? otherwise, I'm outta ideas, thats solved my
> > >similiar problems... I'm outta ideas. :)
> > >
> >
> >
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