FTP Help

[DJStreamline]

I dont have a clue what im doing wrong. I have a Linksys WRT54GL router, and the Airlink ANAS350 Network Hard drive with FTP.

For some reason I cannot get anyone on the outside to view my ftp server.

I have tried the "DMZ Hosting" and forwarding that to my HD Ip address. It works within my network, but not outside.

I have tried forwarding the port 21 to my HD ip address. Again it works within my network, but not outside.

I have tried turning off my router firewall completely. Didnt seem to help any.

I even tried to open the Linksys remote managment port as a test, to see if maybe that would poke a hole to the outside. It worked just fine within my network, but the address would not work from outside.

Is http://###.###.###.###:8080 (Linksys remote port) and FTP://###.###.###.###:21 the correct pattern for the address when accessing from outside. or is it different?

I do put the internet IP address to get in right?


What am I doing wrong?

HELP!!!

Thanks
Joe

[TonyT]

Your isp may filter poty 21 to thwart subscribers from running ftp servers. Thus, you need to change the default ftp ports in the NAS. Change it to use something like 3020 and 3021. Then go to the router port forwarding and forward ports 3020 and 3021 to the ip address of the NAS. Best to use a static ip for it too. To connect from the wan use the address ftp://your-wan-ip-address:3021

[DJStreamline]

My biggest problem is not being able to test my own server. The only form of internet I have is the one I am working with. I have my wife at her work for a limited amount of time and patience for testing pusposes, and thats getting me nowhere fast. Am I able to "CMD" Ping myself somehow to test if the connection is going through.

It appears that if I ping my Wan ip address is working. but as soon as I add the :21 or :3021 to the end of it its failing instantly. Is this a sucessfull fail. or am I doing it all wrong.

I tried changing the port forwarding and everything to port 3021 and that seems to be doing the same thing. Not able to connect to my FTP server...

Grrr. this stuff is soo frustrating.