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[gmdavis63]

I hesitate to post this subject again but I've spent over 2 hours searching, reading, digesting, and testing the suggestions in other posts and I still cannot get my FTP setup to work.  Here's what I have:

- DNS-323 (FW1.04) with LinkSys router WRT54G (FW1.00.7)
- Router has port 21 forwarded to 192.168.1.1.100 -- the IP of my DNS-323 -- with Protocol set to TCP
- DNS-323 has a user set up with R/W access to the root
- ISP = RoadRunner via Tampabay Brighthouse -- can't seem to find the TOS which might tell me if port 21 is blocked???
- Have not tried another port -- sounds positively awful from what I've read

From either of my home networked PCs (1 Vista, 1 XP Pro):
When I browse to the IP address of my router in the format ftp://11.222.33.444 I am prompted for a username and password after which I can successfully navigate through the multiple directories of the Volume_1 on the DNS-323.

And then the problems begin. . .   If I try to click on a file (rather than navigating through directories) the browser pauses for a few moments and in all cases displays "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"

Since I can navigate through the Volume_1 directories I have to be connected, right?  So that tells me part of my setup must be correct.  But what's stopping me from opening a simple PDF file or a picture?

I've tried this with Windows Firewall enabled and disabled -- same effect.

I apologize for dragging this subject up again but if anyone has a suggestion I'd love to try it.

[bigclaw]

Have you tried using a stand-alone FTP client such as Filezilla?

[gmdavis63]

No, I know nothing about it.  Will have to read more about it.

-- Looks like it is fee-based.  I want to exhaust my options with the hardware I've already purchased before looking at fee/subscription based services.

[fordem]

First ftp - file transfer protocol - as the name suggests is for transferring files.  You use it to upload or put a file on an ftp server, or to download or get a file from an ftp server - it does not how to open files, just how to move them from a to b.

Second - use Google - there are still a few free ftp clients out there - or you can use my favourite, the command line ftp client built right into Windows - open a command prompt and type ftp  11.222.33.444 and then take it from there.

[gmdavis63]

But with a browser plug-in for PDFs and JPGs seems to me the file would open.  Or at least a right-click and "save target as" to save the file on my local PC when I travel?  I may be completely missing the purpose of enabling the FTP features of the hardware.

My intent is to be able to have access to my files from home when I travel.

[fordem]

Try ftp explorer