"kj@audatex" <kj@audatex@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have an interesting problem.
>
> We have an FTP Service (not anonymous) where our clients upload and
> download
> files to 2 virtual directories (both are mapped to a file server - Windows
> 2003 using NTFS).
>
> We have an intermittant problem where our clients will timeout when their
> client software does an FTP GET. The raw command that causes the timeout
> is a
> STAT <filename> that is issued by the 3rd party FTP control. We have used
> a
> packet sniffer and have captured the raw commands to see what has been
> going
> on. The timeout occurs after 60 seconds of waiting for the STAT to
> complete.
> Our FTP timeout is set to 120 seconds. All clients use Passive mode.
>
> The clients never fail with a PUT. In the virual folder used for uploads,
> each client has their own subfolder. The virual folder used for downloads
> does not.
>
> The dowload folder could contain hundreds of thousands of files. We could
> have as many as 3 to 4 hundred clients getting files at once.
>
> Perhaps this is a file system or networking error - not FTP?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>