[RandomlyKnighted]

So I have edited the hosts file so that my server IP 192.168.1.25 will be what it goes to when I type in www.onehughes.com and so I tried ftp.onehughes.com to see if the FTP was working on my server. I can't get into it at all. when I go to onehughes.com it works fine. So why can't I FTP into my website? Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance!!

This post has been edited by RandomlyKnighted: 18 October 2010 - 07:02 PM

[no2pencil]

FTP isn't up to the webserver software. Does the server block local traffic to the port?

Since you are on the local network, can you view the logs on the server, & see what it's doing with the ftp attempts? I could help more with the logs if I knew which Operating Systems & which servers (Web & FTP) you are working with.

[RandomlyKnighted]

It has gave me close to 4000 errors that says:

The server was unable to logon the Windows NT 'root' due to the following error: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. The data is the error code.

[no2pencil]

So to say it's blocking ftp isn't true. You're getting access to the port, just the username & password are being rejected by the ftp software. Either add the root user to the server (not the better suggestion!), or use (on the ftp software/client side) a valid username/password login.

[RandomlyKnighted]

A friend let me remote access into his computer. When I tried to log in via Firefox it gave me this error.

530 User webmaster cannot log in, home directory inaccessible.

webmaster is an Administrator account that I added.

[no2pencil]

It sounds like the ftp users are not setup correctly.

Can I ask again which software is running on the server? Is this proftp on Windows?

[RandomlyKnighted]

I'm running FTP 7.5 on IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 Standard.

[no2pencil]

Take from this site :

Step 1 – Create The FTP Site

* Open the IIS management console : Start > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager
* On the Sites node, right click and choose Add FTP Site… (or right click a site and choose ‘Add FTP Publishing’)
* Enter a descriptive site name, then choose the physical path of the folder you wish to set as the root – The physical path isn’t particularly relevant at this stage, it may be better to choose a blank folder to avoid confusion with the virtual directories we will be creating later. Click Next
* Leave the IP Address to All Unassigned on port 21 unless you have a specific setup requirement, also with the SSL – set this to Allow SSL unless you have a specific requirement.Click Next
* Select Basic Authentication and you can set the Authorization to allow access to Specific users to your specified global administrator FTP User with read and write permissions. Click Finish

Step 2 – Set up the users

For each ftp account, you will need a separate user.

* You can set up users in Start > Administrative Tools > Computer Management
* Then expand the Local Users and Groups node, Right Click the users folder and choose New User
* Enter the relevant details for the user then click Create – Taking note of the user name as this will be used to resolve the user to their relevant FTP folder

Step 3 – Set up the FTP folders

* Back in IIS, on your newly created FTP site – Right Click and choose Explore
* Create a New Folder called LocalUser, then close the folder window
* Back in IIS, Right Click your FTP site and choose Refresh
* Right Click the LocalUser folder that should now appear in the tree view list in IIS and click Add Virtual Directory
* Enter the name of the User as the Alias and choose the path to which you want to give the user access to.
* Select your newly created FTP virtual directory and double click FTP Authorization Rules
* Add an Allow Rule for a Specified user, using the username of the user you created and choose the permissions you want for it

Step 4 – Test that it works

For any of the steps that you already have completed, either verify that it is configured correctly, or skip the step. From what I can tell, something must have been missed or mis-configured & the user is trying to log into an account that either holds a directory that it doesn't have access to, or that doesn't exist.

[RandomlyKnighted]

I deleted the FTP site and started over. I made sure that I my FTP site matched the directions as much as possible. I'll try it first thing in the morning from school to see if it works.

[RandomlyKnighted]

I'm still getting problems.

I've verified that mine matched the one on the link you gave me. It may not match 100% but it matches pretty close. As far as I could tell, the only main difference between mine and the tutorials was that I did not create a folder in the FTP root for the virtual directory.

[RandomlyKnighted]

Still having problems and I let the college's IT Administrator take a look at the server. He spent half the day working on it and never could figure out why I can't FTP into it. He said that everything is configured right. He double checked the spelling of my username and password.