Re: IIS FTP Public IP Problem

From: Bernard (qbernard_at_hotmail.com.discuss)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:51:20 +0800

a) first test everything locally. try ftp.exe at local machine.
make sure everything working before you proceed b)

b) use ftp.exe can connect remotely.. outside your LAN.
ftp youpublicip

do you see login prompt ?
can you login ?
can you do dir listing ?

Ftp operation mode and ports requirement, read
Information About the IIS File Transmission Protocol (FTP) Service
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=283679

to be clear.
inbound 21
outbound 20

passive port range.. you can customize it.
How To Configure PassivePortRange In IIS
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555022 

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
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http://support.microsoft.com/
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"ewruff" <ewruff.18hc8z@mail.webservertalk.com> wrote in message
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> I am running Windows 2003 Advanced Server with all of the current
> updates.  My problem is accessing the FTP site from outside of my LAN.
> I am hosting my own WWW site using a free URL from DynDNS.org the
> website's URL is linked to a service that updates my local IP address,
> the site works fine externally.  I want to use the same url except ftp
> instead of http as the protocol.  I can connect to the FTP site using
> the private ip address from another computer on my LAN, and my router
> firewall is set up correctly to forward ports 20-21 to the private ip
> of the server.  I also tryed setting up a new ftp site and forwarding
> to port 2020-2021 to make sure my ISP is not blocking port 20-21.  I
> even placed the server ip address in the DMZ to make sure it is not a
> router issue.  I have my DNS server pointed to the DNS server for the
> DynDNS.org service as they require.  NSLOOKUP resolves both my public
> and private ip address and the URL.  Here is the error I get when
> trying to log in.
>
> An error occured opening that folder on the ftp server. make sure you
> have permission to access that folder
> details:
> 200 type set to A
> 500 Invalid PORT command
> 500 'LPRT 6,16,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,67,0,0,0,0,0,133,96,2,8,98': command not
> understood
>
>
>
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