How to properly configure a FTPconnection with Windows Azure Server.?

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I'm new to Windows Azure Server configurations, and I'm trying to configure the FTP Connection. But when I access the Server with FileZilla it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong here?

I'm using IIS with FTP Server Roles installed.

Following is the error log from FileZilla

Status: Resolving address of AZR-SRV-map01.cloudapp.net
Status: Connecting to 52.187.64.207:990...
Status: Connection established, initializing TLS...
Status: Verifying certificate...
Status: TLS connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Status: Logged in
Status: Retrieving directory listing...
Command:    PWD
Response:   257 "/" is current directory.
Command:    TYPE I
Response:   200 Type set to I.
Command:    PASV
Response:   227 Entering Passive Mode (52,187,64,207,195,237).
Command:    LIST
Response:   150 Opening BINARY mode data connection.
Error:  Connection timed out after 20 seconds of inactivity
Error:  Failed to retrieve directory listing
Status: Disconnected from server

I also tried the following steps in configuring the FTP Connection...

Here the endpoints have being configured from the Azure Portal. enter image description here



This is how I published the FTP Site

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Configured the FTP Firewall Support with the Azure Server Public IP enter image description here

And enabled the firewall outbound and inbound rules.. enter image description here

After completing all the steps, I restarted the Microsoft FTP Service, but the problem still exists.

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1 Answers

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For now, we can't configure a active mode FTP on Azure VM. we should configure data channel port range in FTP Firewall Support, FTP work in passive mode. For example, we can use 10000-10010 ports as the data channel port range. Also, we should add ports to VM's endpoints and add then to VM's firewall inbound rules. enter image description here By the way, although the windows firewall seems to allow all traffic that’s required, we also need to enable stateful FTP filtering on the firewall:

netsh advfirewall set global StatefulFtp enable

Then restart the FTP windows service and we should be up and running:

net stop ftpsvc
net start ftpsvc

Here a case similar as you, please refer to it.