I just installed XP sp3 on a computer within our domain. Now, ftp from a
command line does not work. It connects, you can login, you can change
directories, you can rename and even delete files. But, if you try ls, dir,
get, or send, those commands timeout. After those commands timeout, the
connection remains open and you can still do the previous commands listed,
but not get,send,ls,dir. Just as a test, I opened the ftp site from within
IE and it works fine in there, I can copy and paste, rename, delete files.
Windows Firewall and ICS are both disabled.
Last Friday, I installed sp3 on my own workstation, and I do not have any of
these same problems. So, to further test it, I installed sp3 on another
computer. This third computer has the same problems with ftp that the first
one has.
And, something else that might be related... With a domain admin account, I
can pull up Computer Management for my computer remotely, but not the 2 that
have the ftp problems. And, this problem is usually fixed by disabling
Windows Firewall or configuring Windows Firewall to allow those type
connections.
The only difference between these 3 computers is that on mine, I used our
internal WSUS server to apply the service pack. The other 2 computers, I
downloaded the sp3 distribution, WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe, from
Microsoft and installed that. I didn't want to apply sp3 domain wide, so I
figured I'd just install it on a few computers first.
Any help would be much appreciated!!