>>Hi all,
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>>We have an application that auto-updates itself. But, there is one machine that can not connect to the FTP site. We have tried going to DOS and manually connecting to the site via FTP utility. We could connect. By the way, the firewall is off. I am using the WinAPI function to make the connection.
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>>What other reasons could prevent the VFP application from connecting to VFP.
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>I've seen posts by Rick that the WinAPI function on some machines can get hammered (tech term). Recently, i've had to ask a few users to toggle off the passive setting... which helped. Is that an option available to you?

Thanks, I look in to it.