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The FTP and IIS service were restarted several times, but no luck.
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Could someone please advise me on this issue!
We have a problem with the FTP access on one of our hosted servers. We actually have 3 servers in the hosted environment and the FTP works fine on two of them. The FTP was working fine on the third servre until recently it started giving this wiered error messag:
FTP Folder Error
Windows cannot access this folder. Makesure you typed the filename correctly and that you have permission to access the folder.
Details:
The connection with server was reset.
This error started when we have enabeld the anonymous acess on a website which was in this server. We have also confirmed from the hosting company that port 21 is open for FTP access. Also, the FTP is working on the other two servers which are in the same local area network in the hosting company.
For security reasons, we have stopped the default FTP Site and created our own. This was working fine since 6 months until recently this error started showing up. When we remotely login into this server---> go to IIS ---> expand the FTP sites----->right click on our FTP site and click on browse, it works fine (I mean it challenges for username and password and then it shows the contents of the folder).
Also the hosting company says that when they tried a debus on this server, they are recieving TCP resets and they feel that the FTP service is not configured properly.
Could someone please suggest how to resolve this issue.
Thanks.
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by: grjitdeptPosted on 2007-10-30 at 07:05:40ID: 20177212
Have you tried restarting the FTP service within IIS? I had a similar problem when a hanging FTP process was locking a file - restarting the service cleared it fine.