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Can you login to 192.168.1.144 if you want, using ssh for example? If you can, you can try connecting to the ftp server from there, see if it works. Maybe like this, assuming your ftp server is listening on port 21.
telnet localhost 21
If that works, you can try this from another machine on that network:
Can you login to 192.168.1.144 if you want, using ssh for example? If you can, you can try connecting to the ftp server from there, see if it works. Maybe like this, assuming your ftp server is listening on port 21.
telnet localhost 21
If that works, you can try this from another machine on that network:
telnet 192.168.1.144 21
Please try that and report what happens.
when i run telnet localhost 21 it's giving output like
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 (vsFTP
when i run telnet localhost 21 it's giving output like
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 (vsFTP
and it's hanging here
I think that's a good result, it shows you have the ftp server running and can connect to it from localhost. What happens when you try connecting from a different machine? Did you check the logfiles? Do you have a firewall?
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