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FTP connection refused

AzN

AzN

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I'm having a hard time trying to get into my media box for FTP connection. I was able to connect few days ago.

Every time I try to connect I get "connection refused" message.

Sometimes when I restart the computer I can connect. Now I can't even do that.

It's not a firewall problem because I even turned off firewall.

My LAN trying to get into my media

192.168.4.1 is my local IP
255.255.255.0



My media box

192.168.4.100
255.255.255.0
192.168.4.1 default gateway

I can even ping and it's fine. I just can't connect for some reason.

Any ideas?

I'm running windows 7 64 ultimate
 
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Is your "local PC" also doing all the routing?

if not then based on the information you provided you have an address conflict that would be the cause of your problems. You need to either change the IP address of your default gateway or change the address of your local PC. It would probably be easier to change the latter.
 
You have to understand that my media box is connected directly to my main computer. There's no router in between. My main system however is connected to a wireless router for internet access.

I uninstalled AVG and it worked that 1 time and now it's not working again.

I had this working for more than 4 years to my media box. I upgraded my main box and fresh win 7 install now this. Sometimes it connects but most time it won't connect.
 
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I understand you are frustrated.

AzN said:
Sometimes it connects but most time it won't connect.
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This is a classic symptom of an IP address conflict, Duplex mismatch, or damaged cables.

I would recheck all your IP addresses and really make sure none of them are duplicated. Douple check all your physical and virtual interfaces.

What is the default gateway of you PC?

Is the connection from your PC to the media box in a differant subnet than your connection from your PC to your router?

It will help if you could make a simple diagram of your network. I'm not saying anything is wrong with your setup but I can't verify what I cannot see.

If you are 100% sure that is fine then I'd start at Layer 1. Check all your cables, maybe something is damaged, maybe a port is damaged. Check to see both devices are autonegotiating to 100 full or 1GB, whatever the capabilities are. If your getting 100 half on either side it probably means a damaged cable or improper termination somewhere.

Anyways goodluck.
 
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Nuwave said:
I understand you are frustrated.



This is a classic symptom of an IP address conflict, Duplex mismatch, or damaged cables.

I would recheck all your IP addresses and really make sure none of them are duplicated. Douple check all your physical and virtual interfaces.

What is the default gateway of you PC?

Is the connection from your PC to the media box in a differant subnet than your connection from your PC to your router?

It will help if you could make a simple diagram of your network. I'm not saying anything is wrong with your setup but I can't verify what I cannot see.

If you are 100% sure that is fine then I'd start at Layer 1. Check all your cables, maybe something is damaged, maybe a port is damaged. Check to see both devices are autonegotiating to 100 full or 1GB, whatever the capabilities are. If your getting 100 half on either side it probably means a damaged cable or improper termination somewhere.

Anyways goodluck.
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Like I said this is a crossover cable connection between my main PC and my media box. There's no router in between. This has worked prior to formatting with the exact same settings as what I'm using now. I'm not trying to give my media box any kind of internet connection what so ever. Just FTP to transfer files between my PC and media box.

192.168.1.1 is my wireless router

My Main box wireless pci card connects to router. 192.168.1.3 DHCP enabled
subnet 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway 192.168.1.1
DHCP 192.168.1.1

My main box ethernet 192.168.4.1 static connect
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
No default gateway or DHCP

My media box ethernet 192.168.4.100 static connect
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Default gateway 192.168.4.1
DHCP 192.168.4.1
 
I've had a similar problem with win7. Trying a direct connection from a win7 laptop to a NAS. Win7 didn't want to connect, without a router in-between.
 
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