You just type into the address line in File Explorer ->įtp://yourFTPUserName. Once I turned on VPN, both techniques worked fine.īTW, if you haven't tried the File Explorer technique, it's SO simple. If VPN was off, I couldn't connect either with CuteFTP (free ftp client app) or using the Windows File Explorer technique. Yesterday I finally discovered that I could only connect with FTP when I was running my VPN. My customers could connect with it when I couldn't, so I knew it wasn't a server issue. Some days it worked and some days it didn't.
I was having a lot of frustration trying to connect to my ftp site for the last several months. Tried 3 diferent FTP clients to connect to 2 different hosting servers and my own VPS.Router (opened port 20,21, disabled firewall).Comodo Firewall (Deinstalled restarted, ran Comodo cleaner, restarted and tried without any kind of firewall etc.).Windows Defender Firewall (Ports 20,21 opened in and out).Service provider (same results over the Phone network).Until now, I have managed to eliminate these options: No connection, just a different “error”: Connection attempt failed with "ETIMEDOUT - Connection attempt timed out". I got 20 sec timeout “error” and I tried to set timeout to 0 as well 200 sec. Tried with the port 20, tried over the phone WLAN which does not run over the service provider so the service provider. Tried with the port 20, tried over the phone WLAN as well, I got 20 sec timeout “error” and I tried to set timeout to 0 as well 200 sec. What the hell is going on? What else can I try? Telnet result: Could not open connection to the host, on port 21: Connect failed.I tried with the free FTP programs (Filezila, WinsSCP and Cyberduck) in active and passive mode.I deinstalled and reinstalled the firewall (Commodo) and tried without it and with a fresh installation.I opened the port 21 in the Windows Defender (in and out).