Can not FTP out!?!

[chubtub]

Ok I have written an FTP program to upload generated reports onto a web server. It is on a windows 2000 pro box. the problem that I am having is that I can not open the port to get out. It was working before but now it is not.

Is there anyway that I can tell if port 21 is closed or locked up? A small none intrusive program?

Is it possiable that the port/socket is locked up? I have not been able to reboot since they are currently using the box. There is no blocking set up in TCP/IP filtering.

I can not ping either, but I can browse using IE.

Yes it does use a router which I also have to look into.

I have a couple of these boxes in the field that work, but they do vary in service provider and router.

Any help or things to check would be greatly appreciated.

[QwertyQ!]

On W2K you can go to the command prompt and type netstat /?.
This will list off the different swithces.

You can see what you are listening and connecting on.

I would start by pinging the 127.0.0.1. Then the router address, then www.cisco.com. Some sites do not return icmp traffic.

Open up your router on its http interface and be sure 20 and 21 are open to 2 way traffic.

Tools like wsftp_le are free and log errors. This can tell you where in the process it is failing.

http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ftp.htm

Good Luck

[chubtub]

Cool thanks for the reply, going to us the netstat asap. Have wsftp_le burned and ready. Although I have pretty good knowledge of networking my router skills are lacking.

Am I to assume that the I can get to the router interface via a IP/website?

Would tracert show me any thing useful like that I at least got to the router?

[BahamutFFL]

If you have a Linksys router open IE and go to http://192.168.1.1
user name blank
password "admin" unless you changed it. no quotes.
go to advanced
forwarding
and unblock ports 21-21, click all the check boxes, and indicate the netip of the box you are running the server on.

[sm8000]

Any chance Passive FTP ought to be enabled? Just a thought...

[chubtub]

Well got them to reboot the thing and now they have no connection what so ever so I am going to start with the machine work up to the router and maybe even out to the Service Provider.