Windows 2003 Server SP1 Firewall Modification for Passive or PASV FTP Connections

Passive Mode FTP connections are normally required by clients connecting through a NAT firewall or router. The client connects on port 21 and issues a PASV command, the server responds with a port in the 1024-65535 range for the data connection. After a data connection command is issued by the client, the server connects to the client using the port immediately above the client-side port of the control connection. The Windows 2003 SP1 Firewall will prevent PASV FTP from working properly unless exceptions for the ports are created. A metabase property key named PassivePortRange can be configured to specify the port range the server will respond with. This can be used to limit the security risk for the FTP server. The property key only exists in IIS 6.0. Support for IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000 can be added, but the system administrator will need to install Service Pack 4 and add the PassivePortRange key in the system registry. Two ports must be opened for each concurrent FTP connection.

On Windows 2003 Server with IIS6

• To Enable Direct Metabase Edit
  1. Open the IIS Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
  2. Right-click on the Local Computer node.
  3. Select Properties.
  4. Make sure the Enable Direct Metabase Edit checkbox is checked.
• Configure PassivePortRange via ADSUTIL script
  1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
  2. Type cd Inetpub\AdminScripts and then press ENTER.
  3. Type the following command where the range is specified in "..". cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set /MSFTPSVC/PassivePortRange "5001-5201"
  4. Restart the FTP Publishing Service.
  You'll see the following output, when you configure via ADSUTIL script:
  Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
  Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.
  PassivePortRange : (STRING) "5001-5201"

It's crazy to add 201 exceptions rules. Just disable the windows firewall temporarily.

• Add each port to the Windows Firewall
  1. Click Start, click Control Panel, open Windows Firewall, and select the Exceptions tab.
  2. Click the Add Port button.
  3. Enter a Name for the Exception and the first number in the port range.
  4. Click TCP if not already selected and click OK.
  5. Repeat for each port in the range - for large ranges see the end of the document.
  6. Enable the Windows Firewall on the General Tab.

IIS 6 doesn't handle extensionless URLs. You'll need to change your routes to use the .mvc extension.

For example,

  routes.Add(new Route("Links.mvc/{categoryName}",...

Make sure that IIS 6 maps .mvc to the aspnet_isapi.dll.

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/devcenter/designingcontent.html

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/blogs/developers-diary/archives/104

I'm getting ready to setup an HTC Excalibur and I wanted to post my list of favorite sites to visit with my Mobile Browser and a list of the apps I really need to install to make my Windows Mobile Smartphone complete.

• Amazon Mobile - http://m.amazon.com - A basic, but very usable site, focused on search, that lets folks who've setup their Amazon account ahead of time purchase directly from the phone. Nice if you have Amazon Prime Free Shipping.
• BBC PDA - http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/pda or http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile - BBC has a mobile site and a PDA site, but the PDA site looks best on Smartphones or Blackberries. The best of the BBC on my phone. The mobile site would look good on an old black-and-white WAP Nokia.
• CNN Mobile - http://m.cnn.com - Same here, mobile CNN, some pics, I use this site a lot.
• Engadget Mobile - http://m.engadget.com - My favorite tech and gadget blog, now with mobiley goodness. I wish I could see comments though.
• Hanselman.com - http://www.hanselman.com - Ha! See what I did right there? Back in the day, we taught dasBlog about mobile devices and if you hit hanselman.com from a Blackberry or Windows Mobile browser (and a number of other tiny browsers), we'll detect it and give you a mobile experience. Yay!
• Facebook - http://m.facebook.com - In terms of pure functionality, I'd say that Facebook's mobile site is, hands-down, the most functional. It feels like you can most everything you'd ever want to using only Tiny HTML. This site and this company continue to impress, probably because it's running entirely on Red Bull and 20-year-olds.
• Flight Stats - http://mobile.flightstats.com - This fine site has saved my tuckus a number of times while traveling. Their Airport Chatter section is interesting also.
• Google - http://www.google.com/xhtml - The Tiny XHTML version of Google includes location specific searches and personalization with News, Weather, Movies, etc.
  • +1-800-GOOG-411 (+1-800-4664-411) - If you're able to call this number, either domestically or internationally, it's worth a try because it's amazing. Much better than the "1-800-Tell-Me stuff back in the day, but still of the same vein. I use this a LOT.
• Microsoft Live - http://wls.live.com or http://m.live.com - If you hit wls you'll get your browser detected and possible prompted to download a nice applet for your phone. If you hit m.live.com you'll get tiny Windows Live Search.
• Gmail - http://m.gmail.com - If you hit gmail with your phone you should get detected and sent over to the mobile version. If not, you can hit m.gmail.com or https://mail.google.com/mail/x/ where the x is magic. If you're running Google Apps for Your Domain (GAFYD) you can hack that URL also.
• Joystiq - http://m.joystiq.com - Tiny Gaming Site. Interestingly, while they use (I think) the same back end as Engadget, sometimes the fonts are all wonky.
• Mobile MSN - http://m.msn.com - A decent mobile portal and good jumping off point. The mobile stocks are particularly good.
• MSNBC - http://www.msnbc.msn.com - It's astonishingly LAME that you can't get to this site from http://m.msnbc.com but perhaps they'll read this and make that DNS change, because this is a really good tiny news site.
• Alarm.com - https://www.alarm.com/pda - I use Alarm.com to manage my security systems at the house and our rentals from my phone. If you've got a service available over the web, you really ought to have a minimal mobile website so kudos to them for having one.
• Twitter - http://m.twitter.com - Does exactly what it says it does...mobile twitter, although I'd like to be able to see Direct Replies in the interface.
• Wapedia (Mobile Wikipedia) - http://wapedia.mobi/en - Very useful for winning arguments with the wife self-edification, it's the mobile Wikipedia.

I think it's funny that folks thought that the ".mobi" top level domain extension was a good idea and that the internet just changed "www.foo.com" to "m.foo.com" and saved the registration fee. Plus, I don't have to tap out the "obi" which saves me, like minutes.

What are your must-have mobile websites, Dear Reader?

do postback in modalpopup:

http://forums.asp.net/p/1048185/1770706.aspx#1770706

http://www.aspdotnetcodes.com/ModalPopup_Postback.aspx

Force page on postback when clicking on Select link in GridView

http://forums.asp.net/t/1145438.aspx

Hooking up popupModalextender and GridView linkbutton

http://forums.asp.net/p/1153491/1887835.aspx

Asp.net popup control:

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/asppopup.asp

Create a mobile navigator web site by which mobile users can find the top web sites in the mobile worlds. May add a simple news and weather information there.

Some links:

Best Sites for mobile devices:

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_top/bestsites.asp

Candidate domain names:

http://www.mobiletop99.com

Build mobile web site:

http://www.hostway.com/web-resources/build-your-own/mobile/should-i-create-mobile-site.html

.mobi