"bbxrider" <bxtrap01@job1data.com> wrote in message
news:eFL4LtUhIHA.5280@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> sbs2003 iis6.0
> this continues a previous post with new information
>
> to summarize, at one point ftp was working, and at some point, not sure of
> exact date, it stopped
> i didn't change my router settings or anything i can think of that would
> interfere with ftp
> there is no firewall running on the sbs machine that i can find that is
> blocking 21
>
> i can only access it locally, right on the sbs machine, any external
> access either hangs in ie or gets terminated with ftp.exe, eg:
> Connected to myDomain.com.
> 220-Microsoft FTP Service
> Connection closed by remote host.
>
> i ran a ms utility, port reporter, btw, very nice tool
>
> for port 21, listened to by inetinfo and connected to 21 on the connection
> attempt
>
> Process ID: 1612 (inetinfo.exe)
> PID Port Local IP State Remote
> IP:Port
> 1612 TCP 21 0.0.0.0 LISTENING 0.0.0.0
> 1612 TCP 21 192.168.1.2 ESTABLISHED 67.187.38.300:53641
>
> i could see the connection attempt by trying to access ftp from an
> external pc and using that same pc on remote connection
> to view the port reporter log file in real time
> so it seems the ftp traffic is getting thru but somehow the ftp service,
> which is running btw, just can't seem to answer and that is
> the problem
>