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My ftp is on and all along it was OK. The mistake that I made was trying to connect to my own machine without using a proxy. This was pointed out to me elsewhere and I'm posting it so that anyone else who has the same problem can benefit from this. The tutorial by Besttechie will help to setup a working server. When testing it, test it from a DIFFERENT computer or USE a proxy while testing it. My thanks to all that have replied and helped. Besttechie, perhaps this tip could be incorporated into the tutorial.

If I want to use the domain name from no-ip as a webserver/site it's still unusable for all practical purposes as I cannot point it to a folder. How do I point the domain to 192.168.1.100 instead of 192.168.1.1? Something to do with the router or computer? I'm using Win me. >> Also, if you go to your web browser and type in the address bar: ftp://192.168.1.100:21 - a dialog box will appear asking for username and password, once the server is running correctly if it isn't, then you will get an unable to connect message. This is the message I get from Opera Could not connect to FTP server,

>>No, 192.168.1.1 is the address of your router while 192.168.1.100 is the local address of your pc. Right, I didn't know how to word that. So, shouldn't my domain name point to 192.168.1.100 ? Something is missing here.

Port 21 has been forwarded on my Huawei router for both TCP and UDP. Is TCP/UDP correct? Why does the 192.168.1.1 page come on in my browser? Doesn't that mean it's accessing 192.168.1.1 instead of 192.168.1.100? And why is the error message the same even if the server software is shut down? The response that comes is this Response: 220 FTP Server (Version 1.0) ready. it should be "welcome to bla bla" Thanks for an excellent tutorial! Edit: I port forwarded port 21 in to port 21 in my routers config as "Redirect"

The error message is the same even if the server software is shut down so I think it is something to do with my router(?)

Hi All, Found an excellent tutorial on how to setup a FTP server from the networking section here and followed it to the T. I signed up with dyndns.com and no-ip.com and registered a couple of domains. When I enter the domain names in my browser, my modem page comes up(192.168.1.1), but my internal address is set to 192.168.1.100. I'm using Encrypted ftp as recommended. When I start a ftp client and point it to my domains, it doesn't connect, this is the message I get whether the server is on or not Status: Connecting to xyz1.ath.cx ... Status: Connected with xyz1.ath.cx. Waiting for welcome