ServU FTP behind DLink router

SWScorch

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I mut be doing something stupid, because I had this working a little while ago on another computer.

I am using a DLink DI-604 broadband router to split my cable modem between all of my computers. For a while I had one computer dedicated to just being an FTP server, using ServU. I configured the router to forward ports 20 and 21 to the proper IP address, setup ServU, and it worked perfectly. Well, the motherboard on the server died, I can't afford a new one, and so I installed ServU on my main computer. For some reason I cannot get it to work. Under the domains item on the left panel, I have my only domain, and when I click on that it gives a little info and whatnot, and says whether the domain is online or offline, and gives you the option to change the status. No matter what I do, the domain will not go online. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong as this worked brilliantly on my other computer. I mucked around with the router and made things even worse I'm afraid.

I have, as far as I can tell, TCP ports 20 and 21 forwarded to this computer, which I assigned a static internal IP address. I've done some other stuff, with Virtual Servers and Applications and whatever, but the DLink software is not very intuitive, and so I'm not sure exactly what they do. If anyone has any familiarity with the DLInk software as well as ServU and can tell me what I forgot to do or whatever, I'd be much obliged. :)
 

Diabolus

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Make sure you don't have a Windows firewall enabled on that PC... would kill the D-Link forwarding regardless.
 

SWScorch

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nope, no firewall. Now I really screwed the pooch as WS FTP doesnt work anymore. I really wish DLink's software was better documented.

EDIT: don't know what I did, but I got it to work... Mucking around with settings always yields results! :)
 

Sid59

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you change the internal IP to computer that has SERV-U? you gotta specify which LAN IP is gonna run the 'server' or it wont work.
 

SWScorch

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yeah, I did all that. Apparently what happened was in mucking around with the router, I created two filters for FTP and they were conflicting or something...
 

txxxx

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You need to set passive port ranges, unless your LAN IP is in the DMZ, in which case you've done something odd...

Also, either register the dynamic IP with a host provider, or set the IP manually.

You'll find people can start to connect, but cannot get a passive data connection until these 2 problems are sorted.

Its in there somewhere , been a while since ive had to use Serv U.