I'm on OSX 10.11 and have a VirtualBox guest running Windows 2008 Server R2 x64 (with NAT networking) running IIS with FTP on port 21.
My problem is: I can login to FTP from the host, but can't see directory listings or get files.
FTP was installed like this and there is a Windows firewall entry allowing TCP over port 21.
Port 21 on the guest is forwarded to port 8021 on the host. Login to the guest on FTP is successful, but I can't view any of the files using FTP.
On the host:
Using command line to FTP, I get this:
$ ftp localhost 8021
Trying ::1...
ftp: Can't connect to `::1': Connection refused
Trying fe80::1%lo0...
ftp: Can't connect to `fe80::1%lo0': Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Name (localhost:david): Administrator
331 Password required for Administrator.
Password: ****
230 User logged in.
Remote system type is Windows_NT.
ftp> dir
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||49170|)
ftp: Can't connect to `127.0.0.1': Connection refused
501 Server cannot accept argument.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection.
ftp: Poll timeout waiting before accept
425 Cannot open data connection.
^C
421 Service not available, user interrupt. Connection closed.
ftp> quit
Using Transmit to FTP, the error message is:
Could not retrieve file listing for “/”.
Server said: Server cannot accept argument.Error -162: PORT failed
On the guest:
Command line FTP works fine…
C:\Users\Administrator>ftp localhost
Connected to XXX.
220-Microsoft FTP Service
User (XXX:(none)): Administrator
331 Password required for Administrator.
Password: *****
230 User logged in.
ftp> dir
200 EPRT command successful.
125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
06-22-16 10:42AM <DIR> contracts
05-25-16 02:35PM 184946 welcome.png
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 356 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 356000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp>
Is there anything obvious I've missed? What next steps should I perform to get FTP working?
Best Answer
OK, I figured this out. I enabled IIS to work in passive mode
On the Windows guest VM:
On the host:
I now get the following result when using FTP from the host: