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For my sever using Default correctly identifies the fixed IPv4 public Internet address of the server.

Here we are telling FileZilla server to use the range of ports that we are going to open on our firewall. With many users being protected by corporate firewalls, NAT and SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) Routers it can be tough job.Īn excellent technical background on exactly what happens during the FTP process and the differences between Active and Passive FTP can be found here Ĭonfiguring FileZilla on Windows to accept Passive FTP connectionsĬonnect to your FileZilla server interface and click on the Passive mode settings The biggest problem with FTP is that in order to create a connection both parties must be able to communicate over the same ports for both commands and data. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) may seem a bit old hat in the days of peer-to-peer but is still one of the most widely used transfer protocols, especially in business.