Posts Tagged ‘ftp’

Windows Firewall and non-secure FTP traffic Rule for firewall

Windows firewall can be configured from command line using netsh command. 2 simple steps are required to setup Windows Firewall to allow non-secure FTP traffic

1) Open port 21 on the firewall
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=”FTP (no SSL)” action=allow protocol=TCP dir=in localport=21
2) Activate firewall application filter for FTP (aka Stateful FTP) that will dynamically [...]

Install and Configure FTP Server in Amazon EC2 instance

For many users, running FTP Sever in Amazon EC2 instance is headache at the first time. You need to experiment before being able to transfer data. The main problems are Ingress firewall in Amazon environment and NAT traversal.
Here I’m using vsftp (vsfptd) Server, which is one of the most popular and easy to configure. The [...]