After open ws_ftp, I clicked connected, in the session property/advaced i set the remote port number to 8021.network timeout to 60. in session property/General I set host name to my linux sever name which the zope websever reside in, I put the root manager name of zope website in the field of UserID and password and cliked ok it gives info as following: connecting to 128.192.47.24:34864 200 port command successfully. LIST 150 opening ascii node data connection for the list !timer cancelled blocking call !accept error: blocking call cancelled !Retrieve of folder list failed (O) I failed to do ftp with ws_ftp. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!! Thanks -------------------------------- Jianping Zhu Department of Computer Science Univerity of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Tel 706 5423900 --------------------------------