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[Matthew J. Roth]

Patrick Dupre wrote:
> 
> ssh works fine. However, I have a possible explaination.
> This machine is behind a firewall and to be able to make ssh, I 
> add to ask to have the ssh port open. Probably, the ftp port is
> closed. Should I ask to have it open to use ssl/tls?
> Is it port 21? or 990? how can I check the port 22 is open
> while the other ones are closed on the firewall (I do not have
> admin access to this machine).


Patrick,

Do you have a compelling reason to use FTPS.  If not, SFTP provides the same
functionality (encrypted file transfers) and it runs over SSH, so it should
*just work* in your environment.

Regards,

Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer