FTP Access to W2K Pro

Check out the website I list below, It will help to show you what ports you have open and might help you to pinpoint your problem. I suspect there maybe something in Win2k which stopping traffic over your Port 21, the FTP port. If the port is openand responding you'll know it's some kind of authorization issue, otherwise it's a prot issue.

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My first thought would be, hmmm, I wonder if your FTP program works on W2K. When I upgraded from NT, it broke several programs that had worked very well under NT and under Win95/98.

However, if even IIS FTP won't work, then I start thinking along the lines of authentication failure. W2K did change things in the authentication department, usually for the better but not always.

If you enable security auditing,the Security log should be able to give you a pretty good idea of whether the server is even attempting to connect. Also, check and make sure the FTP service is actually running and see if you can connect from the W2K server itself.

Something else you could check is to see if these other workstations can map a drive to your W2K machine. If so, then I would say it's a problem with the FTP service itself - maybe an incorrect service account.

Hope that gives you some places to start.

paul

I have solved the problem. And for all of you that be having the same problem, here is what solved it.

Opened the properties for my nic that I connect to net with. Click the sharing tab. Then click settings.Under the services tab the FTP server was checked, but when I went to edit its properties, in the bottom space it says place computer name or ip address.

The netbios name for my computer was there and as soon as I put my IP in, it solved the problem.

Thanks for your help.

Scott

Thanks for your comment. I've learned something new today :-)

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