Trying to set up FTP...

[Developer]

Hello,
WinXP Pro, TCP/IP connected to DSL w/ static IP.
I've installed and enabled FTP -- "allow anon. connection", "allow only
anon. connections", but can't connect from another computer on the 'net. In
fact, I can't even ping my WinXP computer. ICF is turned off.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Colin Painter]

The fact that you can't ping your computer from the outside is possibly
because your ISP is blocking ICMP traffic. It may also be that your ISP is
blocking the FTP traffic but there are other things you should check. Like,
do you have a firewall? Out of the box your firewall may be set up to block
all inbound connects. Check the firewall log to see if it is seeing and
refusing the inbound ftp traffic.

cp

 

[Daniel L. Belton]

Hello,
WinXP Pro, TCP/IP connected to DSL w/ static IP.
I've installed and enabled FTP -- "allow anon. connection", "allow only
anon. connections", but can't connect from another computer on the 'net. In
fact, I can't even ping my WinXP computer. ICF is turned off.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Are you running a router? If so the port might be blocked in your
router setup.

Also, some ISP's are now blocking port 21 (which ftp uses) to prevent
people from running ftp servers. Some ISP's don't block it, but it is
against their TOS and will cancel your account if they find out you have
one. You'd better do some checking before running a ftp server on your
system.