From the tree menu click on Passive mode settings.

Open up the FileZilla GUI on your server.

So lets do this, configure FileZilla Server Passive Port Range: Instead you can limit the range of these ports to let's say: 50100-51100. Now this is a wide range and I do not recommend opening all these ports. By default the FTP client will connect through passive mode, and opens a random port between 1-65535. When port 21 is configurated in the Firewall, and you have setup the users/groups in the FileZilla Server setup you still can encounter the problem above. I had the following problem: Response:Ē27 Entering Passive ModeĮrror: Failed to retrieve directory listing Traditional FTP uses port 21, you should open this on your Firewall (see below) but even after opening up this port some errors can rise to the occasion when using passive ftp. Setting up the FileZilla Server is straightforward, but after configuration the user/groups and directory you can have some trouble setting up the Windows Server 2012 Firewall. If you do not know FileZilla Server or the Filezilla Client I strongly encourage you to try them out at FileZilla comes with a lite and lean GUI, great logging tools, connection (speed)limits and more. I prefer to use FileZilla FTP Server above the traditional IIS FTP module.

On server 10.9.200.Setup FileZilla Server Passive Ports on Windows Server 2012 a1.txt Tekradius DB.bak 226 Transfer OK ftp: 26 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 26000.00Kbytes/sec.

ftp> mput C:UsersjohnDocumentsa1.txt mput C:UsersjohnDocumentsa1.txt? -> PORT 10,94,200,28,255,15 200 Port command successful -> STOR a1.txt 150 Opening data channel for file transfer. 220-FileZilla Server version 0.9.41 beta 220-written by Tim Kosse ( ) 220 Please visit User (10.9.200.14:(none)): test 331 Password required for test Password: 230 Logged on ftp> debug Debugging On. Traffic flow for Active mode and Passive mode: 1.

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