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clustering

vincent2 — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:57:33 GMT

Hi all,

I have a question. Is possible to share the log server and notification server on windows cluster?

Firewall issues

rjkltd — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:32:24 GMT

Hi,

I've just loaded 6.1 and cannot get into the ftp site from the outside unless I disable the firewall on the server.

What am I missing?

RJK Ltd.

how to require user to connect via SSH

RonProschan — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:04:01 GMT

How does one require user connections to WS_FTP Server to be SSH? Do you just delete the FTP listener for that host? Or is there a preferred way better than that? Thanks very much in advance.

FTP Server v5 and firewall settings

tonyr — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:29:15 GMT

Using v5 and firewall settings I have entered the port range as “20-22,6000-6100” (this is entered exactly as shown with no spaces). I have also entered an IP address.

When the client connects using PASV mode it will receive ports outside the range (client using v9). An extract from an attempted connection last night:

[] PASV
[] 227 Entering Passive Mode (x,x,x,x,0,22).
[] connecting data channel to x.x.x.x:0,22(22)
[] PORT x,x,x,x,19,78 *** note port is actually 4942)
[] 200 command successful
[] MLSD
[] 425 Can't open data connection.

How do I go about resolving this?

Thanks, Tony

FTP and PASV

SRPD-SL — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:50:54 GMT

Hi,

I have a server, Version 6.1, that has SSH, SSL, and plain FTP running. Every time a client tries to log into the regular FTP, they receive the following errors when pasv support is enabled on the client.

I have configured the firewall set up on the server which dictates the pasv ports. I have had these ports opened on the network firewall as well.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Connecting to X.Y.Z.180:21
Connected to X.Y.Z.180:21 in 0.000000 seconds, Waiting for Server Response
220 Server-Name X2 WS_FTP Server 6.1(21406250)
Host type (1): WS_FTP Server
XAUT 2 SSL-hash-number
230 User logged in
Host type (I): WS_FTP Server
PWD
257 "/users/user-name" is current directory
TYPE A200 Transfer mode set to ASCII
PASV
Error reading response from server.
It appears that the connection is dead. Attempting reconnect...
Connecting to X.Y.Z.180:21
Connected to X.Y.Z.180:21 in 0.000000 seconds, Waiting for Server Response
220 Server-Name X2 WS_FTP Server 6.1(63437500)
Host type (1): WS_FTP Server
XAUT 2 SSL-hash-number
230 User logged in
Host type (I): WS_FTP Server
PWD
257 "/users/user-name" is current directory
New connection OK. Reissuing command.
TYPE A
200 Transfer mode set to ASCII
PASV
Error reading response from server.
QUIT
Error reading response from server.
Failed receiving response from server
Dead connections are not restarted For "QUIT" commands.
Connection closed. Ready for next connection.

SSH and SSL not connecting when using natted ip address

jwhiteman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:40:35 GMT

get ERROR:> The requested connection has been refused by the remote host. (10061) on ssl

get STATUS:> Socket connected (IP = 67.122.134.16), waiting for server response ... on ssh

I have tried adding firewall settings, doesnt work, it connects just fine with ip address on card, but that doesnt help me, as i need it to work natted

WSFTP + SSH Looses the Log View!!

Camaleonte — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:45:07 GMT

Hi all,
anyone knows why WS_FTP possibly looses the Log View?
I get dictionary (I guess) attack on a daily bases since I opened the port for the SSH.
Thats ok, they trying to control a machine... they think its a linux/unix machine.

The ISSUE is that suddenly, I am unable to see any log anymore.
The logs are there. I can open them with notepad.
But I cannot figure out what caused the Log view to never return any results no matter what day and time I choose!
I restarted the services, the machine... nothing!

Anyone had that experience and/or have a possible help/solution for me?
Possibly NOT reinstalling the server!!! That would be the ultimate solution!! :-)
I believe is a quite good and stable FTP server... But I need my logs!

Thanks,

Camaleonte

Virtual Directory Administration Help in v6

mcdonamw — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:58:58 GMT

Can someone explain something to me? My company was previously using v5 of WSFTP and we made use of the virtual folder option pretty extensively. When managing virtual folders via the admin utility, the virtual folders were listed in the root of the pane, regardless if they were set to "show in users folder".

With v6, it seems this functionality has changed, causing us some headaches. Now it seems the option to "display in root, or users folder" not only changes how the virtual directory displays, while using an FTP client, but it seems to change how the Admin console sees it. I don't understand why.

For example, if I set the virtual folder to display in root, the admin console shows it listed in right pane under all other folders. If I change it to "display in users folder", the folder disappears from the root of the right hand pane. It took me a while to find it. I had to drill down the folder pane -> users -> pick any user, and there it was listed.

Not only does the virtual folder list underneath a user's folder, it lists under EVERY users' folder, regardless of the permissions set. The permissions seem to only take effect when logging in via FTP client (i.e. if user has permissions, folder displays, if no permissions, folder hidden).

This seems a bit silly to me. If I make a virtual folder that I want displayed under a user's folder, that setting should only apply to when a user logs in. I have 20 virtual folders and upwards of 1000 users. In the management console, these virtual directories are listed underneath every single user.

Even worse, in order to manage a virtual folder listed underneath a user, everytime you expand a user folder, the entire pane resets/refreshes, moving back to the top of the list. After every expansion I have to rescroll through the list.

Am I missing something here? Is this a bug with the new version of WS FTP? I honestly prefer the old v5 client to this. Management of virtual folders is sheer nightmare now.

Timeout Issues with Server 5.04

JH — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:53:45 GMT

I have WSFTP Server 5.04 with the latest hotfixes, running on a Windows Server 2003 Ent Edition cluster. My issue seems to be with clients logging and timing out. I have the Timeout setting at 600 seconds (10 minutes) but I continually get sessions that will be connected for MUCH longer causing file sharing errors or access denied when trying to delete files.

Is there any way to get the timeout setting to actually work?

Do NOT disable default banner on SSH FTP Server if you want max compatability

johnniewalker — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:19:10 GMT

After quite a few hours trying to figure out why a client could not connect to our WSFTP Server 6.1 with SSH we finally found the culprit. Even though it's a common 'best practice' to disable default banners, this can cause problems with some SSH ftp clients. It appears that the banner provides some important version and/or protocol information. For some clients, without this data being provided in the banner, they may not be able to complete authentication.

Just hoping to save you some time if you have the same problem.

Error 83ef0000 receiving sftp packet

latkinson — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:15:03 GMT

Same client as another post made today, sent me this log from his end. I've tried searching the knowledgebase and the forums and not having much luck. If you have any insight, please let me know. Client believes it might be a firewall issue at his end, but it would be nice to confirm.

Server Welcome: SSH-2.0-WS_FTP-SSH_1.1

Client Version: SSH-2.0-WS_FTP-8.0-2003.05.23

DSS Signature Verified

Session Keys Created

Ciphers Created

New Client->Server ciphers in place.

New Server->Client ciphers in place.

Completed SSH Key Exchange. New Keys in place.

User Authenticated OK!

Completed SSH User Authentication.

Started subsystem "sftp" on channel 0760a2ce

SFTP Protocol Version 4 OK

Server has disconnected for reason 2 (SSH_DISCONNECT_PROTOCOL_ERROR)

Error 83ef0000 receiving sftp packet

error 83ef0000 initializing sftp protocol

Sending channel close message for channel 0760a2ce

SSH Transport closed.

Error with Account Expiration

SynergisAdmin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:38:29 GMT

When I change the expiration date of an account all the other accounts that had the same original expiration date also change? Does anyone know why this is happening? or how to fix it?

Thanks

WS FTP Server v6 and zlib

latkinson — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:10:51 GMT

We recently installed v6.1 of the server in order as part of a consolidation project.

the problem is that one of the clients being migrated generated the following set of messages at the client end.

based on the context, I took a very wild guess and enabled zlib compression on the server. It seems to have worked, but now I'm concerned that other clients may have trouble connecting if they are not using zlib compression.

any thoughts on that? Was my solution the correct action to take?

thanks.

Server Welcome: SSH-2.0-WS_FTP-SSH_1.1

Client Version: SSH-2.0-WS_FTP-8.0-2003.05.23

Failure to agree with SSH server on compatible algorithms

SSH Transport agreed algorithms

Purpose: key agreement Algo: diffie-hellman-group1-sha1

Purpose: server host key Algo: ssh-dss

Purpose: encryption cs Algo: 3des-cbc

Purpose: encryption sc Algo: 3des-cbc

Purpose: MAC cs Algo: hmac-md5

Purpose: MAC sc Algo: hmac-md5

Purpose: compression cs Algo: invalid

Purpose: compression sc Algo: invalid

Failed SSH Key Exchange

SSH Transport closed.

.NET 2.0 runtime error

ricmitch — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:16:56 GMT

I have been getting the following error a few times a day, this seems to be stopping the WSFTP service on the server, (w2003)

I then look at the services screen with in the GUI
Ipswitch WS_FTP Server is off all others are on... I restart the service and it is fine for a while .

I also notive this error in the windows event log

EventType clr20r3, P1 iftpsvc.exe, P2 6.0.2718.2276, P3 466ce898, P4 mscorlib, P5 2.0.0.0, P6 471ebc5b, P7 3404, P8 26d, P9 system.io.ioexception, P10 NIL.

Any suggestions?

IP based automatic ban

Garjala — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:51:47 GMT

We are running WS FTP Server with SSH. Problem is that someone is running somekind of dictionary based hacking system against server. I would like to know if server can be configured to automatically ban IP for selected time if failed login count from it is exceeded? I know that some other FTP servers can do this, but I am not sure about WS FTP Server with SSH.

V6 with NAS drives - not working

mdelig00 — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:36:20 GMT

I have a Western Digital NAS external box. 2 terabytes. Just has a network connection on it and I can access it beautifully with all my client computers. For some reason, whatever I try to make a new virtual location on this system I cannot. It happens to work only on my local system, but anything I guess that doesn't run "WINDOWS" this software can't comprehend? The NAS box has a firmware OS of Linux, which is pretty much transparent to the user. I've tried fully UNC paths and just about everything else I could have thought of. Any suggestions before I switch to Serv-U, since I like this Daemon.

By the way, my NAS server is just a Western Digital MY WORLD BOOK II.

Windows Server 2008 Installation

gregfig — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:47:14 GMT

Does anyone know a workaround to get WS_FTP Server to install on Windows Server 2008?

I find it really annoying that there is absolutely nothing on IPSwitch's site regarding Windows Server 2008. I suspect it's related to the same issues as Vista, but the slow movement in becoming compatible suggests that I should probably move to product that takes proactive steps to remain compatible.

It's a shame really, because I think WS_FTP Server is generally a good product, but Vista has been available for over a year, and Windows Server 2008 has also been available for awhile (and ALLOT longer in beta), and yet nothing is available for compatibility. I may have even had a different opinion if they would at least aprise their customer base of the situation, which, they obviously are not, or at least make it very difficult to find.

I apologize for the negative post, but sometimes, negative feedback is necessary.

Thanks

BAT Files not running

karthik801 — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:52:52 GMT

I have a WS_FTP Server 6 and i have set a Folder Rule to run a Batch file when a Files is being uploaded to the Site,

But the File gets uploaded fine and the Log says the Notification Rule has run but the batch Script fails to run.

Third Party SSL Certificates

ThiryDB — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:38:17 GMT

I use SSL certificates issued by ENTRUST for the rest of my SSL activites throughout my business and would also like to import a SSL cert issued by ENTRUST for use in my FTP Server version 6. How can I generate a CSR file then import the resulting .crt file issued by ENTRUST?

Thanks,

Doug

"%File" contains mixture of physical and virtual path - a bug?

dawidi — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:35:25 GMT

Hi,

I think I found a bug in WS_FTP Server 6, and I haven't found any mention of it so far, so I guess it hasn't been discovered yet.

When a file upload/download notification triggers on a file in a virtual folder, the parameter "%File" does not expand to the correct physical path of the file on the disk, but rather a mixture of the physical and virtual paths.
In our case we have paths like this:
E:\users\user1\
E:\users\user2\
and a virtual folder for user2, referring to the physical user1 folder.
Now when user2 downloads /user1/file.txt (from his view), %file in the download notification expands to
E:\users\user2\user1\file.txt
instead of
E:\users\user1\file.txt
and scripts called by the notification will report a "path not found" error.
I traced the log entries in our database, these errors started on the day we upgraded from WS_FTP Server 5 to 6, in October 2007.
We're currently testing a workaround that strips the extraneous part from the parameter, but that works only in our special case, and I think it should be fixed at the source.

Can someone reproduce the problem?

SSH and SSL/TLS - Explaining the Difference

Tommy_Joe — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:22:25 GMT

We recently loaded IPswitch FTP Server 6 and setup for two different FTP sites. We've disabled port 21 and we're forcing connections on port 22 (SFTP). We have also enabled port 990 (FTPS) but have not configured it as of yet.

I have the unique challenge of explaining to my boss and potential clients why SSH is better. I've found a few key items, but we are anticipating a client stating "I have SSL/TLS. Why is SSH better?". I'm new to this and I am learning via Google searches and such, but I was hoping to get an explanation in here from those who have much more time with the product than I do.

Thank you for your time.

Tom :)

One Host using Active Directory

2000Ody — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:40:09 GMT

Does anyone have or has seen documentation for a clean installation of a WS_FTP Server 6.1 with one Host using Active Directory. I have set up my Server and everything works fine but I want to ensure it is as clean and secure as possible. I don't want to leave any default listner ports etc configured to the original default host if they are not neccessary. Just that kind of stuff.

Thanks in advance.

NET::FTP

lbarth — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:22:35 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to put files to a WS FTP server (version 6) with a perl script using NET::FTP.

I have no problem to access, login, changedir, read and quit, but I cannot write.
I am sure I have write permissions on that server and folder because I can write using Transmit without problems using the very same user/passwd to login.

The perl script works if I change the host name and acces another ftp server (I know this other server is not run under WS FTP, but I do not know which server software it is running).

I asked our WS FTP administrator about this, all he has been able to give me is the following error message :

Object reference not set to an instance of an object., at SSHServerAPI.Transport.FTPTransport.HandleAllo(String arg)
at SSHServerAPI.Transport.FTPTransport.ProcessCommand()
at SSHServerAPI.Transport.FTPTransport.ProcessCommand(Byte[] data, Int32 nLen)
at SSHServerAPI.Transport.FTPTransport._OnRecvCommand(IAsyncResult ar)
]]>

Does somebody knows a solution or what is happening ?

Regards,
Lionel Barth

Notification Variable Wrong!

ekgurney — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:04:37 GMT

I do a file upload, with a file upload failure rule on the server.

the upload is to a /docs directory which locally is located at d:\internet\ftp-docs.

The notification say that the %Dir variable is C:\Program Files\Ipswitch\WS_FTP Server\ssh\docs\Docs.

Is this a known problem, am I doing something wrong, or do I have wrong expectations?

Does ws ftp have plans to develop an plug web client to server??

pearsont74 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:28:05 GMT

there are a few that have this like cute ftp...im looking for an ftp web client they my uses can open IE and borwes to a url and do alot of functions a stand alone ftp client will give but doesnt require an install app.

Can't sign off FTP in IE

dfpramirez1 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:54:47 GMT

Using IE 7 to access the FTP site, ftp://192.168.32.10 and can access the FTP server. I've been experimenting with creating various users/permissions/folders/etc. But, I am now unable to sign onto the FTP server using IE 7 with any other user account. Even if I close a browser instance and start a new one and go back to ftp://192.168.32.10, I do not get a login prompt and am still logged in as the first account I logged in with. How can I log out of the FTP server in IE?

Moving files while logged in

kenjancef — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:17:10 GMT

I have a client with WS_FTP Server 5 and the problem I have is that when a user is logged into the FTP site, and has, say 8 folders and 6 files, he wants to take one of the 6 files and move it into one of the 8 folders, but it can't be done. We use Internet Explorer to connect to the FTP. I have checked every permission issue I can think of, both at the WS_FTP level and the actual server level.

Example: the user has a file called test.pdf, and a folder called "PDF files". The user wants to move that test.pdf to the folder but he cannot.

All the want to be able to do is move files to folders already in their home directory.

Thanks in advance.

Ken

What Table are the LOGS stored in?

michaelmuller — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:50:12 GMT

I'd like to do some custom SQL reports on the error logs. I can't find the table they're stored in. Are they not in the DB and instead stored in a text file somewhere?

Michael

WS FTP Server doesn't show hidden files

pumpkin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:22:28 GMT

Hi!

Is it possible to change this behavior ?

Can I block file overwrite on upload?

Brian Allison — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:41:37 GMT

Just installed an eval copy of WSFTP Server 6.1, it is up and working smoothly. We have some customer that we would like to interact with and they need the ability to download files, upload new files, but NOT overwrite an existing file on upload. In other words, same they download file ABC.doc, make changes to the file, and then upload the changed file, I want to force them to rename their upload to ABCv2.doc, and block their ability to simply upload ABC.doc over the top of existing file.

Can this be done?

THANKS

Brian

Banned IPs still able to attempt FTP connection

DaveS — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:06:17 GMT

Ever since putting my FTP server up I have seen a lot of attempts to access the server from unauthorized people from China, Korea as well as several European Countries.

So far none of them appear to be successful at gaining access to the server. I have taken the following steps to further protect the server.

1. Blocked all IP addresses and only grant access to connections coming from a few select IPs that I trust. This was done through the Access Control.

2. Set a Failed Login Rule that after 5 attempts it will disable the account.

This is where my question comes in. I see that this has helped with people that were trying to get into my SSH listener. Now when they attempt to log in I see "Connection denied to client IP address" in the log file. However when people try and connect to port 21 on the FTP side they are still able to attempt to authenticate. I see 5 attempts at the "Administrator" account logged for instance and then a "Exceeded failed login limit" message followed by them opening a new connection and they go right back after the same "Administrator" account. Shouldn't the Access Control prevent them from attempting the authentication or would it reject them once they successfully authenticate?

Thanks

Timeout error on ftp server 2.0.3 and windows firewall

khanzadeh — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:20:20 GMT

We have a Windows Server 2003 SP2 and running FTP Server v2.0.3
Windows firewall is runing too, but when our client trying to connect to FTP server, in list procecess connection give erro:

ERROR:> Timeout (60000 ms) occurred on receiving data from the server.
226 transfer complete

when I stop windows firewall we dnt have problem with ftp server, I nee to know what should I do to solve this issue when windows firewall is ON too

Thanks

Bandwidth limitation for clients

klot — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:40:56 GMT

Hi
I have tried to set up the bandwidth limitation for clients. I have set it to 50Kb but the client is able to use more than that. I cant find anything in the manual on this. All it says is see the chapter for configuration bandwidth but there is none like that.

Active Directory Synch Issue

jstrohfus — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:21:59 GMT

OK, i've read lots of posts and it seems so simple but I cannot get my AD users to show up after I "Synchronize". If I use Microsoft DB it works fine. I suspect that I have a syntax problem in my LDAP string.

Windows 2003 Active Directory...fully patched.

My Domain = internal.domain.com

I have an OU called "test"

Within the "test" OU I have a group called "test". Within the OU "test" I have a user called "JohnTest" which is also part of the "test" group.

Here is what I have in the settings:

Organizational Unit: OU=test,DC=internal,DC=domain,DC=com

User Groups: CN=test.OU=test,DC=internal,DC=domain,DC=com

I have tried adding Impersonation settings and that does not make a difference.

Per another post I have also tried eliminating everything from the Organizational Unit box and just using the User Group box with the string above. That did not work either.

Thanks to all in advance for your help.

Can't Connect After Adding NAT Address

Sherer — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:55:37 GMT

I have a Ipswitch WS FTP Server V 6 up and running. It was all working locally and under the Host > Firewall settings I had restricted the port range and this was working without any problems.

My external customer was able to connect to the server but for passive connections the server was responding with it's local IP address and not the NAT address. I amended the config under the firewall settings to respond as the NAT address.

I am now unable to connect to the server either locally or from a client.

When I connect locally I now get the below from the client

Finding Host localhost ...
[2008.03.26 13:52:50.062] Connecting to 127.0.0.1:990
[2008.03.26 13:52:50.062] Connected to 127.0.0.1:990 in 0.000000 seconds, Waiting for Server Response
[2008.03.26 13:52:50.062] Initializing SSL Session ...
[2008.03.26 13:52:50.171] SSL Session Started.
[2008.03.26 13:52:50.171] 220 gisftp01 X2 WS_FTP Server 6.1(01718750)
[2008.03.26 13:52:50.171] Host type (1): WS_FTP Server
[2008.03.26 13:52:50.171] XAUT 2 A=7595;5A?89:9;5A;7<6362>1<59@72C95?5?8;C;5<
[2008.03.26 13:52:50.265]

The Logs on the server show

SSL version info: version=TLSv1/SSLv3:cipher=AES256-SHA:strength=256
Error Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Any ideas what is wrong as soon as I remove the NAT IP from the FTP Server I can connect again

what is the name of the Windows Service that runs for WS_FTP?

Johny — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:55:22 GMT

what is the name of the Windows Service that runs for WS_FTP?

FTP Service keeps stopping

michaelmuller — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:02:44 GMT

When I was installing the FTP server and developing code to manage user accounts through SQL Server, and testing the uploads, I noticed that the service would stop for some reason after every few tests. Since it didn't take me long to get my code to work and the uploads to function correctly, I was in and out in a short time and have since moved on.

The customer now complains that the FTP service shuts down frequently. Looking through the logs I see many errors, all of which are just bad path statements, ie; "cd /folder/that/doesn't/exist"

Here's a typical sample from the log...

[code]
myuser_645 PASS ***** Success 220 Informational logon success (myuser_645)
myuser_645 CWD / User Error 550 Error Permission Denied! /
myuser_645 ABOR Success 226 Normal Abort successful
Information 0 Normal ***Ipswitch WS_FTP Server Starting**
Information 0 Normal WS_FTP Server Listening on 0.0.0.0 port 21
Information 0 Normal WS_FTP Server Listening on 0.0.0.0 port 990
myuser_645 PASS ***** Success 220 Informational logon success (myuser_645)
myuser_645 CWD /_groups/1548/video User Error 421 Error Folder not found: /_groups/1548/video
myuser_645 CWD /_groups/1555/video User Error 421 Error Folder not found: /_groups/1555/video
myuser_645 CWD /_groups/1563/video User Error 421 Error Folder not found: /_groups/1563/video
myuser_645 CWD /_groups/1562/video User Error 421 Error Folder not found: /_groups/1562/video
myuser_645 CWD /_groups/1564/video User Error 421 Error Folder not found: /_groups/1564/video
myuser_645 CWD /_groups/1556/video User Error 421 Error Folder not found: /_groups/1556/video
myuser_645 CWD /_groups/1566/video User Error 421 Error Folder not found: /_groups/1566/video
myuser_645 CWD /_groups/1637/video User Error 421 Error Folder not found: /_groups/1637/video
myuser_645 ABOR Success 226 Normal Abort successful
Information 0 Normal ***Ipswitch WS_FTP Server Starting**
Information 0 Normal WS_FTP Server Listening on 0.0.0.0 port 21
Information 0 Normal WS_FTP Server Listening on 0.0.0.0 port 990
[/code]

... and this keeps happening over and over and over. How do we stop the server from crashing due to bad CWD commands?

Strange error in the logs -- error 10038

jadams74 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:53:06 GMT

Looking for some help here. The server works just fine, but then after a while I notice the following in the logs:

0328 19:28:12 (000011e0) x.x.x.x net read error 10038
0328 19:28:12 (000011e0) x.x.x.x connection closed

This then seems to happen alot until I either restart the server or sometimes just having the user log off and back in.

V6.1 clustered setup question

dahaas57 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:53:10 GMT

We have a pair of identical servers running Server 2003 Enterprise and attached to SAN storage defined as K:\ We installed WS_FTP Server V6.1 on 1 server and have it working properly on the first server with the PostgreSQL installed on the K:\ drive.

We rolled the node to move the K:\ to the other server in the cluster and attempted to install the server software while pointing the PostgreSQL path to the earlier installed PostgreSQL instance on K:\. It tells us the data folders are not empty and setup stops.

We decided to leave the PostgreSQL path at the default values so the install completes and another PostgreSQL database is created on the local C: on the second server.

How can we repoint the second install to the first PostgreSQL instance so it will use the database with all our accounts?

Is this possible? Documentation covers setting up a database on a 3rd server, but doesn't seem to cover how to repoint a server to that 3rd server or in this case a different instance of the database on a SAN drive.

It's our hope to have this work so either server (whichever is active) will use the SAN drive and that PostgreSQL database. Any assistance would be appreciated...

folder action rules

KristopherM — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:43:07 GMT

I see you can get it to run batch files etc, but what about other executables?

Many of our clients upload gpg or pgp encrypted files. Previously (before I joined the company) the old ftp server had winbatch files/scripts running through the windows scheduled tasks.

1.) no one seems to know where the actual wbt files are to modify the scripts
2.) I'd like to move away from scheduled tasks,and long winbatch processes.

before the pgp software would open the file, decrypt it (using the passphrase in the winbatch file), and move it over to another server

Is that possible directly through the WS_FTP server software, or do I still have to do it via scheduled tasks?

We are trying to move away from the old server, and we have tons of these scripts for our clients.

Thanks in advance!

Kris