hello thanks for the help, I changed the acl for ftp and still no joy, and I am removing the cache from FTP just as a troubleshooting step, when I get the problem working, I will put it on again the error in the webpage is: ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved An FTP protocol error occurred while trying to retrieve the URL: ftp://ftp.samba.org/ Squid sent the following FTP command: NLST and then received this reply Use PORT or PASV first. Your cache administrator is admin@xxxxxxxx?subject=3Dsquid_problems. Generated Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:16:46 GMT by ns0-int.domainregistry.ie (squid/2.5.STABLE3) thanks for your time Regards Jimmy -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/problem-with-squid-and-ftp-tp2075803p2076632.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.