Well, I figured that since both firewall & sharing were mentioned in the plist's filename, it was probably the preferences file for the System Preferences > Firewall & Sharing dialogue. I'd try switching that entry & rebooting. Stroller. On Apr 15, 2005, at 1:07 am, Matthew Barr wrote: > This probably only lets FTP traffic through the firewall. This > probably won't turn on the FTP server itself... I think someone else > commented on the command that will turn on the FTP server. >> >> The command I would use to achieve this would be _something like_: >> defaults write >> /Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist "FTP Access" >> enable '1'