Accessing FTP Externally

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Good Day

I am trying to access MBL through FTP when I am away from my network. 

I have already assigned a static address to my MBL and am using dyndns.og for port forwarding services. I have also enabled Allow FTP in the Settings page.

I have another NAS which also has FTP services on the same network so the NAS already has port 21 forwarded to it. To overcome this issue, I forwarded port 2121 to the MBL instead.

When I am try to access the MBL through FTP externally, through the dyndns.org service, using FileZilla, this is the error message I get:

Status: Server sent passive reply with unroutable address. Using server address instead.
Command: LIST
Error: Connection timed out
Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing

However, when I am trying to access the MBL through FTP, using FileZilla and the internal IP address as the hostname, it works just fine.

Is there something I am missing or doing wrong?

2

Out of curiousity, what happens if you reverse the assignemnts?

Send 21 to the MBL and send 2121 to the other NAS.

3

That would not work because I can’t change the port to be used for the original NAS. 

4

You shouldn’t have to.

Your router should “translate” the “outside” destination port to the “inside” destination port.

So, instead of:

FTP 21 → Router →  FTP 21 to NAS 1

FTP 2121 → Router → FTP 2121 to NAS 2.

you should set your router to do this:

FTP 21 → Router →  FTP 21 to NAS 1

FTP 2121 → Router → FTP 21 to NAS 2.

You shouldn’t change the FTP port on the NAS itself.

5

Awesome! This worked like a charm :smiley: