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IIS FTP through port forwarding, passive mode problem

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AndyCrowe   12-06-2006 at 11:13:53 AM

Hi guys,

I'm trying to run an IIS FTP site through a port forwarding router (BEFSR41). All ports are forwarded to my server at 192.168.0.10 but passive mode doesn't work.

IIS seems to be sending an incorrect IP for passive mode (it's using the local IP rather then the internet ip)

227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,0,10,18,106).

I can't run active ftp as the machine I'm FTPing from is also behind a router

Is there any way to configure IIS to get round this?

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Grumpy9117   12-06-2006 at 12:56:02 PM
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Are you trying to test FTP from a local computer? It won't work. Go to http://www.g6ftpserver.com/en/ftptest to test your FTP server.

Grumpy

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AndyCrowe   12-06-2006 at 01:52:32 PM
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Nope I'm testing from a remote PC using the internet IP for my router.

I can make an ftp connection to port 21 fine, it just fails when setting up the data connection

The FTP test returned

* About to connect() to x.x.x.x port 21
* Trying x.x.x.x ... connected
* Connected to x.x.x.x (x.x.x.x ) port 21
< 220 Microsoft FTP Service

> USER guest
< 331 Password required for guest.

> PASS *****
< 230 User guest logged in.

> PWD
< 257 "/guest" is current directory.
* Entry path is '/guest'

> CLNT Testing from http://www.g6ftpserver.com/ftptest from IP 217.154.32.194
< 500 'CLNT Testing from http://www.g6ftpserver.com/ftptest from IP 217.154.32.194': command not understood
* QUOT command failed with 500
* Connection #0 to host x.x.x.x left intact

* Closing connection #0

which doesn't look particularly helpful

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Grumpy9117   12-06-2006 at 02:20:30 PM
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Passive mode also requires and additional ports. Did you forward those as well?

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555022

Grumpy

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AndyCrowe   12-06-2006 at 04:21:26 PM
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All ports are being forwarded (1 to 65535)

One thing I noticed is the ftp program is sending "227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,0,10,18,106)". which is the LAN address rather then the external address.

Do FTP clients use this IP or will they go with the original host name given?

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Grumpy9117   12-06-2006 at 05:23:46 PM
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Can't answer your question. I've never setup a FTP server using IIS.

Grumpy

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mozkill   01-10-2007 at 11:28:49 PM
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when you run your FTP server in passive mode, the server needs to send the client a response with the external IP address i think. If the FTP server sends the internal IP as the response then things wont work. this is usually configurable on the server. if you can't figure it out with IIS, then I dont blame you. Try using FileZilla FTP Server because its easier to understand I think and that configuration parameter is easy to find.

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blue68f100   01-11-2007 at 12:53:12 AM
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Setting up FTP servers can be a royal pain. I have setup several FTP server, both NAS boxes. One worked with out a hitch, the other was browser sensitive. I had one that only worked with IE passing the user & pw on the address bar. The problem accours when there are firewalls on both ends.

Here is a link that will help explain how the hand shaking works.

http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html

Good luck.

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