It worked. I ended up at the office today without a file I had to have. I needed a syllabus from last year, and it wasn’t on my laptop. Actually, the file was on my laptop, but I left the laptop at home today because I just suppose to be in meetings.
EFTP did the trick. I used a lab computer and downloaded the free client (free is nice). Sixty seconds later I was downloading my file.
The trick was using port 21 on the firewall. I tried it with a different port (thinking it would confuse the network scanners looking for an FTP server). Once I opened up port 21, everything worked as it was suppose to. Now I just check the logs daily to make sure there isn’t anything “funny” going on.