How do you allow FTP services to work in win 2008 r2

guapo August 20, 2012 at 09:49:15

To put files on a remote server, the ftp command should work. Only the client is needed, not a server. Here's an example: C:\>ftp 192.168.1.102 Connected to 192.168.1.102. 220 FTP server (Version 6.4/OpenBSD 7) ready. User (192.168.1.102:(none)): guapo 331 Password required for guapo. Password: 230- Welcome to Linux Mint 13 Maya (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-23-generic i6 230- Welcome to Linux Mint 230 User guapo logged in. ftp> put adhoc.txt 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 'adhoc.txt'. 226 Transfer complete. ftp: 185 bytes sent in 0.00Seconds 185000.00Kbytes/sec. ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. C:\> If that's all you want to do, why do you want to run the FTPD in order to accept incoming connections? How do you know when a politician is lying? His mouth is moving.

YvesT August 20, 2012 at 10:30:55

I am going to give that a try in a moment. The reason i installed FTPD is to see if it was win ftp or just a setting. I had trouble before on windows server with ftp connections being blocked. If i can just do a regular transfer from a directory i am good, that's all that is needed. Edit : Just tried this, but after hanging on 'ftp ip'' it just goes to ftp> prompt, i did not see any incoming connections either on the server.

guapo August 20, 2012 at 13:07:33

You are confusing the terminology. You don't mean incoming, you mean a response to your outgoing request. Where is your remote account located? You didn't use the IP that I used, did you? How do you know when a politician is lying? His mouth is moving.

YvesT August 20, 2012 at 13:29:44

No of course not haha. I am using the IP from the ftp server which is supposed to store the backup. From what i can tell the command prompt does the same as a ftp client does, which is time out after some time. It's just not able to connect to the remote server.

guapo August 21, 2012 at 19:14:39

That's correct. The command prompt does the same thing as the FTP client. In fact, it is an FTP client. If it's timing out, then the server isn't answering. Can you ping that IP address? How do you know when a politician is lying? His mouth is moving.

YvesT August 22, 2012 at 02:18:09

No from the server i cannot ping any IP. No problems on the other PC's though. So it has to be something in the settings.

guapo August 22, 2012 at 05:26:07

Open a command prompt & try to FTP to the remote server. If that isn't blocked, go back to your server & look for those settings. Disable Windows Firewall & if there is Norton or some other worthless program, disable that too, until you can determine the cause. Then correct the settings. How do you know when a politician is lying? His mouth is moving.

YvesT August 22, 2012 at 07:35:11

Command prompt FTP does not work either. Firewall disabled has no effect at all. No norton or something alike that could be blocking things.

guapo August 22, 2012 at 12:24:35

Are you sure of the FTP server's IP address? How do you know when a politician is lying? His mouth is moving.

YvesT August 22, 2012 at 14:17:25

100% sure, use it all the time on other systems. The computers using windows 7 got no problem connecting(as long as i turn firewall off). But the windows server 2008 R2 refuses to connect, not even with firewall off it will work.

guapo August 22, 2012 at 17:03:24

Well, good luck finding the block. I certainly can't see it from here. How do you know when a politician is lying? His mouth is moving.

tonysathre August 22, 2012 at 18:09:35

Post the output of the following commands: ipconfig /all route print ping 4.2.2.1 ping google.com Tony

hollowman512 August 31, 2012 at 10:50:57

I'm surprised that no one else on here mentioned that transferring patient data over FTP exposes confidential information. FTP is not encrypted, so I hope your backup files are. Otherwise, you're putting a huge liability on your client. -- Andrew Leonard BL Technical Services Emergency IT Support

tonysathre August 31, 2012 at 14:06:51

Nothing was mentioned about the type of data and I don't like to make assumptions. Tony