Efficient 5861 FTP Problems

[NordicPC]

I have setup our 5861 for FTP ports 20/21 to work in and out of our Firewall. People can access our FTP site (when I allow it on the server) but I can't access any of our clients FTP sites. I always get time out errors.

Configuring firewall scripts is not one of my strong points so I'm sure I've done something wrong.

Security wise I seem to have scored a home run, but with regard to FTP, strike out. Any help would be great!

[mbravo]

There is too little data to provide any concrete help with your setup; however, did you try connecting to outside FTP servers using passive mode?

[fE¨·.·¨Er]

Originally posted by NordicPC
I have setup our 5861 for FTP ports 20/21 to work in and out of our Firewall....................

If you run an FTPserver 'A' you need to allow trafic on 'YOUR' port 20/21 for standard FTP connections.

However, when you try to connect to an external FTPserver 'B', then any random available port on 'YOUR' system (like 3540) will be used to seek the FTPserver 'B' port 21. In this case your firewall needs to allow this kind of trafic by granting access to your port ( 3540 example) to reach the FTPserver 'B'.
fE¨·.·¨Er (http://fever.resourcez.com)