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ProFTPD hangs on "227 Entering Passive Mode"

Hi all,
Thanks in advance for your help. I am new to Linux and have been researching this issue all morning. I recently installed RedHat 9 to act as an FTP server for our magazine. I have proFTPD working, yet I can only connect in the following manner:

*If I use Internet Explorer connection I can connect fine and transfer files.
*If I use windows command prompt I can connect and transfer files.

**If I use WS-FTP Lite, I can connect but program halts and stops at LIST command. Will work if I un-check passive transfers under the advanced tab.
**If I try from withing Linux, I get "227 Entering Passive Mode" - and then times out.

Seems like passive mode is a problem for my server, but I have searched all over the internet and have not found a way to change that setting in ProFTPD. It appears that my server is working, which I am very happy about, but I have a MAC user that needs to connect using fetch and the user is not computer savvy and having her shutoff passive mode in fetch will be more trouble than I have time for. Thank you again for any help that you can provide.

-virushater-

Hello,
After many hours of research I have fixed my own problem!!

In case anyone finds this post and had the same questions I had, here is how I solved this issue:

in proftpd.conf,

first I added:
#This displays the internet address on client instead of
#the local address that you are forwarding ftp request to
MasqueradeAddress "xx.xx.xx.xx" (external internet address)

then I added:
PassivePorts 60000 65535

I then adjusted my NAT router to forward all 60000 - 65535 ranges to my internal FTP server address. Works fast and flawless.

Thanks everyone who looked at my post.

Wanted to give credit to the person where I found this solution (Tahnk You!):

http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/doc...-HOWTO-NAT.txt

VirusHater, Iam tryin to do the same but with QEMU and Debian Etch as Guest and Debian Etch as host. I go the same rror but i am not sure how to resolve this. I tried what you did but I am not sure what to do for the MasqueradeAddress directive.

Code:

ftp> open localhost 9021

Connected to localhost.

220 ProFTPD 1.3.1 Server (Debian) [127.0.0.1]

Name (localhost:username): music

331 Password required for music

Password:

230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply

Remote system type is UNIX.

Using binary mode to transfer files.

ftp> ls

227 Entering Passive Mode (10,0,2,2,153,91)

ftp: connect: Connection timed out

ftp>

So I decided to use this directive for proftpd within this file /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
PassivePorts 53630 53631

If that is correct then I should see something like this.

Entering Passive Mode (10,0,2,2,209,126)
Entering Passive Mode (10,0,2,2,209,127)

Instead I still get random ports assign for the passive port range. How can I limit the server to use ports 53630 - 53631 as the passive ports?

Thanks

#load module nf_conntrack_ftp

modprobe nf_conntrack_ftp

# or vim /etc/modules
# add line to end of file
# nf_conntrack_ftp