Problems with ftp and VNC on wingate PC

[matbli]

Hi,

Having some problems with my FTP server and VNC on my wingate PC. Have just upgraded to ver 6. Used to have all things, ftp web server and VNC routed through proxies bound to the Internet network adapter. But that gave me problems with people using me as proxy to other destinations on the net. Now I have set up my apache web server to listen to the external interface on port 80 and created a hole in the firewall for this purpose. Works just fine. But trying the same thing for ftp and VNC does not work, why? Have tried both exactly the same approach as with the web server as well as redirecting to 127.0.0.1, witch I would prefer, but nothing works, except for the web server – why?

Btw, the ftp works just fine internaly on the LAN.


/Mats

[Pascal]

What error messages are you seeing on the client attempting to connect in? Do you see any firewall hits at the same time?

If you run "netstat -an" from the command line, can you see the server is listening and is listening on the correct adapter, etc.

[matbli]

No I only se firewall hits if I remove the hole in the firewall. The remote PC on the internet says 'The page can not be displayed'. Trying exactly the same from a client on my LAN i.e ftp://wingatepc:21 works fine.

/Mats

[matbli]

When running netstat -an I see 0.0.0.0:21 is that OK? Access from a client PC on my LAN works fine i.e ftp://wingatepc:21.

[Pascal]

Okay. 0.0.0.0:21 is fine. That just indicates it's listening on everything. What ftp client are you using if it's saying "The page can not be displayed". That sounds like a browser?

What you can try is to set the Port Range you'd defined to always notify. That way you'd be able to see any connections coming in as well. If you don't see anything - then you need to look outside of WinGate for the problem. (Possibly a router / intermediary that needs a port range / virtual server setup?)