Sunday, January 20, 2013

FTP Service for IIS: client connection times out on LIST command

The Problem

You installed the FTP Service for IIS, but after connecting clients time out on list command:

“Error: Connection timed out”

“Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing”

The Solution

Step 1: Verify Firewall exceptions are defined correctly:
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Step 2: Disable stateful FTP filtering (see here):

netsh advfirewall set global StatefulFTP disable

Step 3: Restart FTP Service

net stop ftpsvc

net start ftpsvc

Good luck!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks!