Re: FTP on IIS6.0 Not Working

From: Paul Lynch (paul.lynch_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/01/04 

Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 10:16:09 +0000

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:57:41 -0500, "Jenna" <stilesj AT meachamapel
DOT com> wrote:

>Okay, bear with me on this...I feel like I've tried everything and can't get
>this to work!
>
>I had virtual directories set up for an FTP site on our server and they were
>working fine. They we upgraded the server from Windows 2000 Server to
>Windows Server 2003 (also Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003) and from IIS5.0 to
>IIS6.0.
>I guess IIS had a little trouble updating at the time and when it got
>updated my FTP virtual directories got wiped out. No problem, I said, I'll
>just recreate them.
>Well, I have recreated them and they are inaccessible from remote computers
>over the internet (I can get on from a computer on the LAN).
>What happens is when I type in the address, it asks for my password normally
>and even accepts my user name and password, but then breaks down with this
>message:
>200 Type set to A
>500 Invalid PORT command
>500 LPRT 6,16,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,67,0,0,0,0,0,133,96,2,13,29
>
>I was originally referred to KB281193. I'm not sure how this article
>provides a solution, though, and the LPRT response I get is clearly not like
>the 6 number example shown.
>The attempt above was without Passive Mode checked in IE. With Passive Mode
>checked, it just times out after entering the user name and password.
>I am running ISA Server 2000, but this was set up before the upgrade to
>IIS6.0 and I believe all the settings are fine here to allow access. I have
>gone through articles 310110 and 294679 just to be sure. When I followed
>the "Publish the FTP Site" instructions in 310110, I got an event log error:
>Web Proxy Service failed to bind its socket to 10.0.1.2 port 80. Could be
>another service using same port or a NIC that's not functional.
>(The NIC is fine and the service continues to run after this message.)
>
>When following article 294679, it mentions changing the EnablePortAttack
>value to 1. However, I cannot find this variable (or, I believe the IIS
>help file mentioned another name for it in 6.0) in the registry anywhere.
>Is this something that I'm supposed to create, or does the fact that its
>missing mean that IIS6.0 is not properly installed?
>
>I also read some information about setting the PassivePortRange (KB555022),
>but am not sure how this would help.
>
>Another note that may or may not be helpful: I'm setting up the virtual
>directories on FTP as a path to another server. I have it set up to use the
>user's authentication so that it uses their permissions when accessing the
>folder. This does cause an error in the event log upon creation and
>reboots:
>Unable to add virtual root '/foldername' for the directory
>'\\server\foldername' due to the following error: Access is denied.
>Despite this I can still access this from a computer on the LAN. If I
>assign to use a specific user's permissions, I don't get that error, but
>there's too much access then, and I still can't access remotely.
>
>Finally, I've been considering doing a VPN using PPTP for a more secure
>option instead...is this relatively easy and should I just try that and give
>up on FTP?
>Thanks, anyone, for some help or advice...this is driving me crazy!
>

Jenna,

In addition to Bernard's suggestions, try disabling socket spooling as
per this article :

Publishing FTP server on ISA
http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Publishing_FTP_server_on_ISA.html

Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE

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