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>I have IIS 5.1 and FTP services active on a Windows XP
>Professional system. I am getting "FTP Folder Errors"
>when trying to access an FTP folder through a firewall.
>Access works fine via local lan using "localhost" or lan
>computername as the host name. Port 21 is opened up on

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>firewall. I know firewall is letting through FTP

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>because I see the FTP sessions in the IIS MMC snap-in.
>All FTP site permissions, NTFS file permissions, and

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>accounts are defined and look correct.
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>Why would ftp://localhost or ftp://mycomputername be

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>yet ftp://x.x.x.x <--where x.x.x.x is my firewall IP
>address, get folder security errors. The same user
>accounts are used. I do have anonymous login allowed and
>it gets the same error.
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>Any ideas on tracking down the source of the security
>error would be grand. FTP log in %systemroot%\system32
>\logfiles does not reveal any relavent information.
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>I appreciate any ideas..........
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