Re: Unable access ftp site

Since you managed to connect when you turned off the firewall, the issue is the firewall. As I posted earlier you should have an exception to the firewall for port 21.

As far as accessing the site using ftp://ftp.mycompany.com, you'll need an A record that points to the external address of your server. That would be the address that your router gets when connects to the ISP (assuming you are using NAT). If you have a static IP Address, create a DNS record at the ISP or any other DNS provider that maps the ftp.mycompany.com to that address. In the router, forward requests for port 21 to 192.168.0.17 , the address of the XP box that run the ftp server

Costas



"jmillerWV" <jmillerWV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:245B63FE-00ED-43A6-A64D-F99DF9A90C3B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tried it and the second machine would not connect via ftp://outsidemachine.
Even took them off the router and placed them on a hub by them selves still
not able to connect. I reinstalled IIS on the "outsidemachine" and still was
unable to connect. turned off the firewall completely and then was able to
connect via ftp://outsidemachine. Reconnected the two machines to the router
made sure they were not in the same workgroup and tried ftp://outsidemachine
and it connected but when I went to ftp://ftp.mycompany.com/ still not able
to connect. What now?

jmillerwv

"Costas" wrote:

That name has a lot to do with it. If you are "calling" a computer with the
wrong name the computer won't answer.

First you need to check if the ftp service is working properly. If the
computer name is "outsidemachine" and it belongs to a workgroup, add another
XP computer (if you have) in the same workgroup, open IE from that computer
and type: ftp://outsidemachine . Assuming the firewall on "outsidemachine"
has excemptions for port 21, you should get a reply and access to the ftp
server. If you do, the ftp service is setup properly and now we are dealing
with DNS issues.

Let me know if by doing what I suggested works.

Costas


"jmillerWV" <jmillerWV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7216F438-7387-4F47-9B10-FBEE5E5A852D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Did as you suggested. No response same as before. It times out with no
> explination. ? does the name of the computer have any bearing on this?
> example ftp site address is "ftp.ourcompany.com" but the name of the
> perimeter machine is "outside machine" set up on a workgroup called
> "Workgroup". ?Do I need to set a seperate DMZ up on the router (router
> address 192.168.0.1 default DMZ server on router is 192.168.0.0,
> connections
> to SBS2k3 192.168.0.25, to XP Pro machine 192.168.0.17 port 20 and 21
> forwarded to 192.168.0.17)? Again thanks for the assistance.
>
> jmillerwv
>
>
>
> "Costas" wrote:
>
>> This seems to be an XP Pro issue related, most probably, to firewall.
>> Add
>> an exception to the firewall in XP for port 21. Then connect a >> separate
>> computer in the DMZN and try to access the site (this step is to make
>> sure
>> that there is only one firewall between the client and the server).
>>
>> See if that works
>>
>> Costas
>>
>>
>> "jmillerWV" <jmillerWV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:4FFE2103-04EA-4BF1-ACF0-3102376F06B1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Good day all,
>> > I hope this is in the correct area. I have ans SBS2k3 premium server
>> > running
>> > ISA2004, SQL, Exchange and so on. We have a static IP address and a
>> > FQDN.
>> > I
>> > am wanting to set up an ftp site on a perimeter machine and am >> > having
>> > trouble. I can get the site set up on my SBS server and access it >> > fine
>> > from
>> > inside and outside, but when I set it up on the perimeter machine I >> > am
>> > unable
>> > to access it at all. the perimeter machine is running XP Pro with >> > IIS
>> > installed and I have configured the FTP site according to the rules. >> > I
>> > have
>> > set the router to redirect the FTP request on port 21 to the >> > perimeter
>> > machine I can ping the perimeter machine from my server but I cannot
>> > access
>> > the FTP site from anywhere. Can anyone give me direction on this?
>> > Thanks
>> > in
>> > advance.
>> >
>> > jmillerwv
>>


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