Comments on: FileZilla FTP Server on WHS

By: Afrank

Afrank — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:48:00 +0000

CAN'T CONNECT? MAKE SURE YOU ADD PORTS/EXCEPTIONS TO THE WHS "Windows Firewall" application located in the Control Panel.

By: Jason Thibeault

Jason Thibeault — Fri, 13 May 2011 16:20:00 +0000

Okay, so I just followed your instructions and everything went well except for two issues. First was that WHS 3.0 includes the stupid FTP service. So that needs to be disabled first. Second was to make sure that you also specify what ports Filezilla should listen on in the General Settings. I kept wondering why I wasn't connecting and then I finally realized that I needed to put the ports (20,21,50000) into that field in those settings. Once that happened, everything worked like a charm. Thanks for the quick write-up.

By: Joe DiFiglia

Joe DiFiglia — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:08:26 +0000

I have just run into a situation similar to yours. I replaced my router and was unable to connect to my FTP server even though everything was EXACTLY identical. It seems that my router is unable to perform a loopback connection. It works from the outside using my dynamic hostname, but not internally.

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By: Joe DiFiglia

Joe DiFiglia — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:36:01 +0000

The :u creates the user directory as soon as they log in instead of you creating it manually. This is useful if you have users for FTP that you don't have for WHS.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:29:12 +0000

Hello,

Thankyou for your artical.

Filezilla and WHS working, great I now have ftp.

I have one question for you in your shares image you have 'c:ftpusers:u'

Q. what is the ':u' for? (I don't think its needed)

thanks.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:19:25 +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 18:42:44 +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 17:42:18 +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 15:11:03 +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.