The log file showing it fail at the password authenticaiton stage, not
during the connection to the host.
is this the correct log file?
do you see login prompt at all ?
if yes, and you got error 530, then try
Err Msg: 530 User <Username> Cannot Log In. Login Failed.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=200475 --
Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.iis-resources.com/ http://www.iiswebcastseries.com/ http://www.msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/ [quoted text, click to view] "Walter Fettich" <wfettich_AT_as.ro> wrote in message
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>I have a personal ftp site on running on my Win XP box with IIS 5.1.
>
> It worked ok until a certain moment from which I cannot login.
>
> When I call "ftp localhost" i get the response
> "Connected to HOSTNAME.
> Connection closed by remote host."
>
> The log files don't show any new record from December 8th and that one is
> full of this
> 02:59:01 84.56.149.42 [2]USER admin 331
> 02:59:01 84.56.149.42 [2]PASS - 530
> 02:59:01 84.56.149.42 [3]USER admin 331
> 02:59:01 84.56.149.42 [3]PASS - 530
> 02:59:01 84.56.149.42 [4]USER admin 331
> 02:59:02 84.56.149.42 [4]PASS - 530
> ...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
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