Windows server 2008 firewall ftp passive

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For this walk-through, you will choose to accept the default port of For this walkthrough, you do not use a host name, so make sure that the Virtual Host box is blank. For the Authorization settings, choose "Anonymous users" from the Allow access to drop-down. Select Read for the Permissions option. Click the node for the FTP site that you created. The icons for all of the FTP features display. In this section, you configure the server-level port range for passive connections to the FTP service.

Use the following steps:. In the Connections pane, click the server-level node in the tree. Once you have entered the port range for your FTP service, click Apply in the Actions pane to save your configuration settings.

The valid range for ports is through Ports from 1 through are reserved for use by system services. In this section, you configure the external IPv4 address for the specific FTP site that you created earlier. Once you have entered the external IPv4 address for your firewall server, click Apply in the Actions pane to save your configuration settings. Windows Server contains a built-in firewall service to help secure your server from network threats.

If you choose to use the built-in Windows Firewall, you will need to configure your settings so that FTP traffic can pass through the firewall. Each of these configurations are described below. You will need to make sure that you follow the steps in this section walkthrough while logged in as an administrator.

This can be accomplished by one of the following methods:. One of the above steps is required because the User Account Control UAC security component in the Windows Vista and Windows Server operating systems prevents administrator access to your firewall settings.

For more information about UAC, please see the following documentation:. While Windows Firewall can be configured using the Windows Firewall applet in the Windows Control Panel, that utility does not have the required features to enable all of the features for FTP. The Windows Firewall with Advanced Security utility that is located under Administrative Tools in the Windows Control Panel has all of the required features to enable the FTP features, but in the interests of simplicity this walkthrough will describe how to use the command-line Netsh.

To enable stateful FTP filtering that will dynamically open ports for data connections, type the following syntax then hit enter:. The stateful FTP packet inspection in Windows Firewall will most likely prevent SSL from working because Windows Firewall filter for stateful FTP inspection will not be able to parse the encrypted traffic that would establish the data connection.

The FTP service is hosted in a generic service process host Svchost. To configure the firewall to allow the FTP service to listen on all ports that it opens, type the following syntax then hit enter:. It is often challenging to create firewall rules for FTP server to work correctly, and the root cause for this challenge lies in the FTP protocol architecture. Each FTP client requires two connections to be maintained between client and server:.