diff --git a/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
index 917d07afd57..b8dcc493e14 100644
--- a/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
+++ b/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Manifest-Version: 1.0
 Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
 Bundle-Name: %pluginName
 Bundle-SymbolicName: org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp;singleton:=true
-Bundle-Version: 2.1.400.qualifier
+Bundle-Version: 2.2.0.qualifier
 Bundle-Activator: org.eclipse.rse.internal.subsystems.files.ftp.Activator
 Bundle-Vendor: %providerName
 Bundle-Localization: plugin
diff --git a/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/pom.xml b/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/pom.xml
index 8bca327223b..06d49eeb3eb 100644
--- a/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/pom.xml
+++ b/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/pom.xml
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@
   </parent>
   <groupId>org.eclipse.tm</groupId>
   <artifactId>org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp</artifactId>
-  <version>2.1.400-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>eclipse-plugin</packaging>
 </project>
diff --git a/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/src/org/eclipse/rse/internal/subsystems/files/ftp/connectorservice/FTPConnectorService.java b/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/src/org/eclipse/rse/internal/subsystems/files/ftp/connectorservice/FTPConnectorService.java
index 1d7ba7ef91e..b6a69f4227e 100644
--- a/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/src/org/eclipse/rse/internal/subsystems/files/ftp/connectorservice/FTPConnectorService.java
+++ b/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/src/org/eclipse/rse/internal/subsystems/files/ftp/connectorservice/FTPConnectorService.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2006, 2008 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * Copyright (c) 2006, 2013 IBM Corporation and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
  * Martin Oberhuber (Wind River) - [204669] Fix ftp path concatenation on systems using backslash separator
  * Martin Oberhuber (Wind River) - [203500] Support encodings for FTP paths
  * Martin Oberhuber (Wind River) - [235463][ftp][dstore] Incorrect case sensitivity reported on windows-remote
+ * Martin Oberhuber (Wind River) - [269442][ftp] Set passive mode by default
  *******************************************************************************/
 
 package org.eclipse.rse.internal.subsystems.files.ftp.connectorservice;
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ public class FTPConnectorService extends StandardConnectorService
 
 			//Active - passive mode
 			propertySet = createPropertySet("FTP Settings"); //$NON-NLS-1$
-			propertySet.addProperty("passive","false",PropertyType.getEnumPropertyType(new String[]{"true","false"})); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$ //$NON-NLS-3$ //$NON-NLS-4$
+			propertySet.addProperty("passive","true",PropertyType.getEnumPropertyType(new String[]{"true","false"})); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$ //$NON-NLS-3$ //$NON-NLS-4$
 
 			// FTP List parser
 			String[] keys = FTPClientConfigFactory.getParserFactory().getKeySet();