In the next step, you need to assign a shareable folder that your created user will have access. In this print-screen, you can see a button ‘Add’ which you will press to create a User. To connect to the FTP server, you need to create a user on the main interface. Check out all necessary options on the main interface. Your FTP server will work on localhost, which you are configuring right now. We can now try to connect again using the clientĪfter the configuration I was able to connect to the FileZilla FTP Server.There are recommendations to leave this configuration as it is. For most situations you will need to have all of these checked.Įnter a name for the Firewall Rule, in this case we are going name it "FilaZilla FTP Server" so we can easily find it later if we need to change anything Select Domain, Private and Public then press "Next". Select "Allow the connection", and then press "Next" to continue Verify that the correct EXE is in the path location and press "Next" to continue If I would have selected “FileZilla Server Interface.exe” instead of “FileZilla server.exe” it probably would not have allowed the connection. Sometimes the only way to find the right EXE is trial and error. The key to configuring Windows Firewall is selecting the right EXE to allow. You can apply this method for almost any program that is having issues connecting through Windows Firewall. Open "Windows Firewall" from Administrative Tools and select "New Rule"īrowse to C:\Program Files\FileZilla Server\ and select "FileZilla server.exe". You can apply this same method for other network services you want to use with Windows Firewall because we are going to set the firewall rules by the application and not by the port. In this article I will show you how to configure Windows Firewall to allow FileZilla Server. Troubleshooting led to the Windows firewall being the root cause. When I tried to access it via the FileZilla client I noticed I could not connect to the FileZilla server. I did a basic install, created a user and set a directory for the user. I download FileZilla Server from and I wanted to install it on my Windows Server 2008.
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