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After 3 hours of flattening my forehead on my desk, I’m just about ready to give vent to a soothing primal scream.

I can not get IIS 5.1’s FTP server to function when behind a firewall, regardless of what sorts of port forwarding I do.  I can get close:  I could connect and authenticate, but no directory listings.  No pasv love.

I’m missing something obvious. Hope I find it before that bulging vein in my forehead pops.

2 Responses to “Primal Scream”

1. Vox on October 11th, 2007 12:14 am
   

   It depends on your firewall, actually.

   If it’s a linux box (and why would it be anything else? you need to load the ftp_conntrack module and I think one other _conntrack, once they are up, pasv works.

   If it’s anything else….well….reboot two dozen times, and when that doesn’t work, format and re-install?

2. Chris on October 11th, 2007 11:16 am
   

   Turns out I had everything configured properly. I was testing with FileZilla and it was going straight for PASV mode — turns out, that wasn’t necessary. Once I turned off pasv everything worked fine.

   Next time I test with command line ftp before busting out the pretty gui clients…

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