FTP tranfer is kept on hold

Question

I've set up a PROFTP server on a CentOS 7 machine. And I am accessing it from other machines (with windows servers) to send files to it.

I've created some rules to only enable to stor files to a certain directory and the subdirectories will have different ownerships. At this point they are owned by user.

<Directory pathToDir>
    <Limit STOR CWD>
       AllowAll
    </Limit>
    <Limit READ RMD DELE MKD>
      DenyAll
    </Limit>
<Directory>

So here is what happens to me.

I log in with user from a windows server machine and access first sub-directory (own user grp user), mput several files and the files are copied. I log in with user from a different windows server machine and access second sub-directory (own user grp user), put file and I get confirmation code (200 PORT command successful), but transfer doesn't start, however the file is created on the server and it is empty.

If I use my laptop, everything works.

Does anyone know how to fix this? Or what is wrong with my FTP server?

EDIT: FIXED. It was a windows firewall issue, couldn't get response from the ftp server. Since my server has a static ip I managed to add an exception to the windows firewall allowing only that ip to have full access to the ftp rather than opening a set of ports.

Answer 1

these would point to a firewall issue:

• If the connection times out (rather than fails instantly)
• If a directory listing from the client also fails

as a workaround you could try passive (PASV) FTP.