Comments on: FileZilla FTP Server on WHS

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:19:25 +0000

I tried various settings in my client, including what you suggested, with no luck. Still getting timeouts trying to connect to the server. I think I’m gonna have to give up on this for now and move on, but thanks for your advice.

By: Joe DiFiglia

Joe DiFiglia — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:42:44 +0000

Try setting your Filezilla client to passive. It may be set to Port. If it is set to passive currently try PORT… verizon routers are goofy.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:42:18 +0000

Thanks for your reply. I had looked through other folks’ comments – must have missed that one – sorry. I just tried ports 20, 23, and 30 but still get the timeout trying to connect. I’m uncertain what ports to try. Is there some way to tell which ports are available to try on the home server?

I am still puzzled, too, as to why my ftp server responds to connection attempts from CanYouSeeMe.org but will not respond to my FileZilla client.

By: Joe DiFiglia

Joe DiFiglia — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:11:03 +0000

As someone stated in one of the other comments, Media Smart servers now have software on them that uses port 21… try a different port for the FTP server and see what happens.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:17:25 +0000

I have set up a FileZilla FTP server on my HP Windows Home Server per the instructions given here but get a timeout when I try to connect via a FileZilla FTP client. A buddy of mine gets a timeout, too, when trying to access my FTP server from outside. In troubleshooting, I confirmed that port 21 is open on my network by using the port check tool available here: http://www.canyouseeme.org/ – in fact, my FTP server responds to that test, showing that a connection was made, then disconnected. Testing port 50000 gave an error, though. I don’t understand why that would be the case since I forwarded ports 21 and 50000 – 50100 in my Verizon router’s firewall settings. I don’t know what else to try to fix this. Any ideas? TIA.

By: Zman

Zman — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:44:36 +0000

I followed this tutorial over a year ago with success. However, after updateing my MediaSmart server to the latest version 3 release I found it would not collect files from clients. Days of investigation yielded that the Mediasmart 3 software uses ftp on IIS and when you install Filezilla it tries to use the same port. Long story short…..if you want to run this on a newer Mediasmart server (or software version), you need to change the port number to something other than 21 or it will interfere with other things.

By: John

John — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:30:04 +0000

Hi, I am trying to install this FTP software on my WHS system and every time i try to download it the download gets canceled, if i download the software on another system then transfer it to the WHS system every time i try to execute the file i get an error indicating i do not have permission … and i am the administrator ..??

What am i doing wrong?

THX

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:30:26 +0000

Just FYI, if you need to access the FTP server from within the same network, use the internal IP of your WHS as the hostname i.e. 192.168.1.21 . I ran into ‘no data connection’ errors when trying to use the outside ‘homeserver.com address from wihtin my LAN.

By: Joe DiFiglia

Joe DiFiglia — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:27:02 +0000

Are you sure that you forwarded the ports in your router to the IP address of your server? Double check that you gave the proper permissions on the Home Folder for your users. Also, try disabling the windows firewall and see if that helps. Are you running any other software that could be acting as a firewall?

By: cga

cga — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:54:17 +0000

I’m using ftp filezilla client and I get message it just can’t communicate with server

Any idea?