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by nugent_2000

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I am unable to download thru our firewall anything from techrepublic yet am able to from other sites. If the firewall password screen coms up not even my system administrator password help yet at many sites no problem. Any thoughts on what I can do?

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by olisao55

most likely there are a good number of ports that are closed for outgoing traffic, and those need to be opened to download from some sites example: limewire 6300's. Some firewalls will have settings that will turn on or turn off common ports like the FTP port. Please post what type of firewall that you have installed. Some also have most outgoing ports blocked by default, some opened. Hope this helps.

by bobby gillette

If you are using IE 6, you can configure the browser to use passive FTP to allow you to download files... otherwise check with your firewall admin to make sure the FTP protocol (port 21) is enabled for your subnet, workstation, or location.

Hope this helps,

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