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Does anyone know which port RADAR uses for FTP? Opening up TCP port 21 on a firewall doesn't work. I'd like to do transfers without having to shut down my whole firewall.

Is this on a MAC or PC?

Mac OS X. (Is it different for PC?)

Any word on this?

Also, not sure if it's pertinent but another option to investigate is the Passive FTP setting in OS X's proxy settings (Sys Prefs-->Network-->Choose port-->Proxies). Mine's on passive, not sure if it was on by default.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301534

Hi Tony,
Still trying to work this one out.
Passive is the correct setting for that.

I have been doing testing, and I don't think it is a port issue. (ie, leave the firewall on, but open all ports - same result).

Hey Tony,
I've been following up on this.
Check this out.

http://fetchsoftworks.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/003008.html

Try this on the Mac Firewall
click New in the Firewall tab of the Sharing system preference pane, and enter 1024-65535 in the TCP Port field (you can call the entry "FTP client active mode" or something similar.

In the advanced tab, you can see the firewall log. It will show which ports are being blocked. Play around a bit.

We are still following this on our end, but i thought i'd give you an update.

Hi Tony,
There is a better solution.
If you are using Pure FTP Manager on your Mac, go to Preferences/Settings/Passive Port Range. Input a range of 9000 - 9999.

Then in your OS X Preferences, click New in the Firewall tab of the Sharing system preference pane, and enter 9000-9999 in the TCP Port field (you can call the entry "FTP client passive mode" or something similar.)

Other options we've found are:

Flying Buttress shareware app for advanced built-in firewall (ipfw) configuration:

http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/flyingbuttress.html

Without requiring PureFTPd, but Advanced:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-58679.html

Very Advanced: The Kingdom Mac News :: View topic - Build-In FTP Server and the IPFW (FireWall)

http://forums.the-kingdom.net/viewtopic.php?t=92