FTP plugin winsock connection refused [solved]

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twodev
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FTP plugin winsock connection refused [solved]

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With the latest FAR 1.75 RC0 FTP plugin I keep getting a red error box without title just telling me the name of a WinSock error value ("WSAECONNREFUSED"), but nothing else, whenever I try to connect to a FTP server. Nothing else happens after that.

This happens with both FAR 1.75 and FAR 2. (XP X86 SP3)

Any ideas? Maybe something related to the OS?
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Re: FTP plugin WSAECONNREFUSED

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try "Passive mode"?
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Re: FTP plugin WSAECONNREFUSED

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WSAECONNREFUSED
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Connection refused.

No connection could be made because the target computer actively refused it. This usually results from trying to connect to a service that is inactive on the foreign host—that is, one with no server application running.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx
Check clean install of 2.0 build 818 with my ftps, all works fine :)
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Re: FTP plugin WSAECONNREFUSED

Post by twodev »

@maximus5: Doesn't help either.

@px: I know what it means. But whatever i try nothing helps, far-wise.

I have around 100 FTP accounts stored for use with the FAR FTP plugin and this has never happened before :| Not sure whether it is FAR- or XP-related.
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Re: FTP plugin WSAECONNREFUSED

Post by twodev »

Well okay, I've narrowed it down.

The problem is related to the operating system. The Windows Firewall is somehow blocking FAR or FAR's FTP plugin - both 1.75 and 2.0. Every other FTP client I've tried works and makes Windows pop up the "Allow/deny" message box where I can add an exception. However FAR never pops up such a message here on this system. But I did actually have exceptions for FAR added before. Even if I reset the Firewall to factory defaults (ie. netsh firewall reset) and manually re-add FAR.EXE as an exception it doesn't work. I keep getting WSAECONNREFUSED. However if I deactivate the Windows Firewall completely the plugin works again.

This is so massively weird...

UPDATE: Solved. This is caused by the Windows Firewall. Disabling it gets rid of the problem. No exceptions work, resetting doesn't help either. Lots of other people with XP-SP2 and SP3 seem to have the same problem, which seems to suddenly appear. Well, I've replaced Windows Firewall with Tiny Personal Firewall and it works well now. Still I have no clue how and why this happened anyway...
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