Topic: FTP woes

[Matthew]

I'm trying to setup an FTP server on my SME server, but am haveing troubles.

Can someone point me out to a step by step, or even post them here?

Thanks!!

[Dan Brown]

Umm...  There already is an FTP server on the SME box.  What's wrong with it?

[Matthew]

I know this, I just don't know how to gain access it remotely.

I have already gone into my security settings, and enabled it so it is available by the public, and gave the ftp access limits to "normal"  but I still can't access it remotely.  Any suggestions?

[Dan Brown]

Not at the moment; I can access mine, FWIW.  What do you mean by "can't access it remotely"?  What, exactly, happens, and what have you tried.

[Matthew]

What do you mean not at the moment?  heheh.  There HAS to be a way to access an FTP site remotely,  I mean, what is the point of an FTP site available only locally, when you have Windows filesharing?

When I try to access the FTP server via -  192.168.0.1  it works great.... and that's locally.   But when I try to access it remotely  -   216.223.*.*  (*'s instead of real numbers for security)  it says this:

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

So there >MUST< be a way you can access it remotely, I've never seen a linux server, that had an FTP, you couldn't connect remotely to.

[Dan Brown]

No suggestions at the moment--that is, nothing comes to mind immediately.  My server is set with FTP user account access = public, FTP access limits = Normal usage (sounds same as yours).  I just tried logging in remotely, and it lets me connect and log in.

Your server is configured as server and gateway, not _private_ server and gateway, right?

[Terry Brummell]

Just my 2 cents here.  Who's your ISP?  Is it is a resedential ISP?  Lots of the residential ISP's are now blocking port 21, actually, most known ports below 1024.  I'm lucky as my cable provider has not done this yet.  Search the posts for a thread which I participated in on how to change the FTP port to something else, I run mine up in the 20 thousands.

Terry

[Jon Blakely]

Matthew,

Sounds to me like you have a NAT firewall in front of your server. Probably your ADSL/Cable modem/router. If that is the case you need to forward port 21 and if needed port 20 through the router to the external port on your server.

Jon

[peter]

this sounds like the problem I had some time ago

mine problem was solved when the ftp client was set to passive mode.
the problem was that the isp refused more connections on my ip for ftp.

hope it helps

peter

[LAN PUTZ]

DAN,
I'm an old NetWare hack..and what Matthew says about his problem is accurate, and what he has tried so far.I understand a little more about networking and trusts so to gain access to the SME server if I make them a local network to this machine. For example 68.217.5.0 .  Which means anyone on that subnet can access the server.  I have had to make my office subnet local to this machine in order to use server-manager or ftp (admin is the only one that works well most of the time).   I can FTP in and out all the time as long as the subnet I am on is local to the sme network.  I am behind a NAT hardware firewall. However all the required FTP ports are open all the way thru to my sme server.  not just port 21.  Passive FTP is the only way to communicate to the server anyway.Which is normal even for windoze ftp services.  I have even tested the machine in the DMZ and still no good.  It will not work by IP address or my registered domain name.  Unless I create a one way trust from my server.

Hope this helps you understand our problem.  

And Dan.  Thanks for all the other helpful How-to's.  They have saved my A$$ many a time!

-Lan Putzpeter wrote:
>
> this sounds like the problem I had some time ago
>
> mine problem was solved when the ftp client was set to
> passive mode.
> the problem was that the isp refused more connections on my
> ip for ftp.
>
> hope it helps
>
> peter