FTP from within Parallels
Just a quick one today…
I have an XP installation running in Parallels and have found some problems using ftp from within it.
FTP is a strange protocol in that it creates two way connections on a number of ports. Even using the FTP variants which initialise all the connections from the client side (passive) I was having trouble using it successfully from within Parallels. I tried host-based and shared networking. What did work was using Bridged-Mode and this allowed the dhcp server on my network to assign the address to the Parallels VM and this then allowed the ftp client to successfully connect to the ftp server and upload files. The other 2 modes do not allow the ftp client to complete the strangeness of ftp properly.