Cant't connect to the server via LFTP

Virtualmin
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When I try to connect from an external server to Virtualmin server via LFT I’m “stuck” on simply LS command.

Debug output below:

---- Connecting to 69.176.xyz.71 (69.176.xyz.71) port 21
<— 220 FTP Server ready.
—> FEAT
<— 211-Features:
<— MDTM
<— MFMT
<— LANG ko-KR;ja-JP;zh-TW;bg-BG;ru-RU;fr-FR;zh-CN;it-IT;en-US
<— TVFS
<— UTF8
<— MFF modify;UNIX.group;UNIX.mode;
<— MLST modify*;perm*;size*;type*;unique*;UNIX.group*;UNIX.mode*;UNIX.owner*;
<— REST STREAM
<— SIZE
<— 211 End
—> LANG
<— 200 Using default language en_US.UTF-8
—> OPTS UTF8 ON
<— 200 UTF8 set to on
—> OPTS MLST modify;perm;size;type;UNIX.group;UNIX.mode;UNIX.owner;
<— 200 OPTS MLST modify;perm;size;type;UNIX.group;UNIX.mode;UNIX.owner;
—> USER fbcontestapp
<— 331 Password required for fbcontestapp
—> PASS XXXX
<— 230 User fbcontestapp logged in
—> PASV
<— 227 Entering Passive Mode (69,176,xyz,71,207,141).
---- Connecting data socket to (69.176.xyz.71) port 53133
`ls’ at 0 [Making data connection…]

Any clue?

Thanks

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Most likely reason would be a firewall or router blocking / not forwarding the port that the FTP server is offering (here 53133, but they’re chosen randomly each time). If you have a firewall in place, you need to open a selected port range (e.g. 10021-10029), and configure ProFTPD to use that as passive mode port range: Webmin / Servers / ProFTPD Server / Virtual Server - Default Server / Networking Options: PASV port range.

3

Howdy,

Also, there’s some thoughts on how to fix that particular problem in the section here titled “FTP Service Isn’t Working”:

https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/web/faq