ALSB 3.0:  Unable to retrieve files from Novell FTP Server

I have written several ALSB proxy services that retrieve data from Unix FTP servers. This works great and I haven't experienced any major issues. However, I now have to write a service that monitors a directory on a Novell FTP server. The same exact code works great pointed against a unix ftp server, but when pointed against the Novell FTP server, the proxy service never finds any files to process even though I have manually connected to that ftp server using the same id/password and have been able to see the files.
All the proxy is supposed to do is poll for files and copy them to the ALSB server for processing. Very very simplistic and works great against a Unix ftp server.
I turned on the transport debug option and this is all that shows:
<Ftp Client created and connected successfully for '+my_server+:21 for user:+myuserid+>
<+FileWorkPartitioningAgent.execute()>
<Returning 0 tasks.>
<-FileWorkPartitioningAgent.execute()>
We ran a packet trace on the server and we see the following commands being executed:
User myuserid
mypassword
SYST
TYPE i
PASV
list .
TYPE i
PASV
list .
quit
The files are in the "landing" directory for the user, so I am certain that it isn't a pathing issue. I'm just running out of ideas.
Some questions I have are:
1. has anyone experienced/resolved this issue before?
2. is there any way to do custom configuration of the ftp client (disable the PASV aka passive mode, enable debugging, etc) used by the FTP transport?
3. Could the FTP Transport not like the format of the list results from the Novell FTP server?
If anyone has any thoughts, I'd love to hear them.
Thanks!

Hi Iccarus
I realise its been quite a while since you wrote this thread but, in my desperation, I hoped you might have made some progress on this. I too am having almost identical issues:
1. Can get/put files via ALSB ftp from/to unix or microsoft ftp server
2. Can put files via ALSB ftp to the problem ftp server (not sure of its flavour atm)
3. Can get/put files from the command line from/to the problem ftp server
4. Cant get files via ALSB ftp from the problem server
The commands which were executed at the problem server are very similar to those you found:
successful login
ls
ls
quit
Any insights would be greatly appreciated

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