users cant login to my site

[imsoparanoid]

WinSock 2.0 -- OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005
[R] Connecting to Tim's Private FTP -> DNS=x.x.x IP=*.*.*.* PORT=****
[R] Connected to Tim's Private FTP
[R] 220-
[R] 220 Hope you find what you need
[R] USER imsoparanoid
[R] 331 Password required for imsoparanoid.
[R] PASS (hidden)
[R] 230- 09/25/05 18:56:52
[R] 230-User imsoparanoid from ___, welcome to our FTP server.
[R] 230-
[R] 230-Site rules:
[R] 230-
[R] 230-download READ_ME_FIRST.txt from the root dir of FTP
[R] 230-
[R] 230-
[R] 230-Site activity:
[R] 230-
[R] 230- Users online : 1
[R] 230- Active transfers: 0
[R] 230-
[R] 230-Enjoy your stay.
[R] 230 User imsoparanoid logged in.
[R] SYST
[R] 215 UNIX Type: L8
[R] FEAT
[R] 500 'FEAT': Command not understood
[R] REST 100
[R] 350 Restarting at 100. Send STORE or RETRIEVE to initiate transfer.
[R] REST 0
[R] 350 Restarting at 0. Send STORE or RETRIEVE to initiate transfer.
[R] PWD
[R] 257 "/" is current directory.
[R] TYPE A
[R] 200 Type set to A.
[R] PASV
[R] 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,0,101,5,190)
[R] Opening data connection IP: *.*.*.* PORT: 1470
[R] Data Socket Error: Connection timed out
[R] List Error


its as if it freezes somehow. please help. i use FlashFXP 3.2.0.1080 (not registered yet, don't have money right now)

[_panic_]

when you are able to establish a control connection, but no data connection, the problem is almost always firewall related.

can you describe the topology between yourself and your server?

[imsoparanoid]

the "server" is actually only a folder on my comp. my firewall is the default SP2 firewall. i also have opened port 2100 on the wireless router in my dads office

[EwarWoo]

[R] Opening data connection IP: *.*.*.* PORT: 1470
The FTPD doesn't just use the connection port. As you can see from your example it was trying to use port 1470 to establish the data connection.
By default it will randomly use any port from 1024 to 2048, all of these need to be open.
You can set to just a few ports, however that will create major issues when you have more than 1 or 2 people on site.

[imsoparanoid]

im such an idiot. i knew i forgot something

[EwarWoo]

Not really, shit happens, would recomend editting the initial post but to remove your ip / dns / ports, i've already editted mine for ya.

[imsoparanoid]

now i've got another problem, i have everything setup correctly in ioFTPD.ini so users can connect, but the problem is it very slow and listing a directory. im on cable and the users connecting are on broadband (cable/dsl/t1, etc). i have the all the ports i need open opened (2100 for the site and 1030-2048 for tranfers) and can't get anything decent out of it. also, users can't upload to my site even though, i have the permissions setup to allow everything (read, write, execute)

[EwarWoo]

Check to see if you have a systemerror.log and if so whats in it.
Last time I experienced this it was a badly configured script running and hanging causing issues and they often leave a message in there.
Check to see what scripts you have running on the following events and disable 1 by 1, see if one of them is causing the error:
OnFtpLogIn =
OnNewDir =
stor =
mkd =
+ any others you may see that look like they would be trigerred by uploading / login / listing.
Listing + login being slow part though is probably just the connection, advise users to use stat-l listing, its a little quicker.

[Phlegm]

now i've got another problem, i have everything setup correctly in ioFTPD.ini so users can connect, but the problem is it very slow and listing a directory. im on cable and the users connecting are on broadband (cable/dsl/t1, etc). i have the all the ports i need open opened (2100 for the site and 1030-2048 for tranfers) and can't get anything decent out of it. also, users can't upload to my site even though, i have the permissions setup to allow everything (read, write, execute)


cant remember if dir listing is using active mode on transfers, so you would be needing to open up another port there, site-1, in your case 2100-1 -> 2099. if being all wrong here, then someone please be kind enough to correct my erroneus 'guessing'