Windows Server 2008 r2 FTP blocking outside connections

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Published on 2012-02-15T21:33:48Z Indexed on 2013/06/30 16:22 UTC
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I have a windows server 2008r2 running IIS 7.5. I am trying to setup a FTP-server in IIS but I'm running into some annoying problems.

Setting up the server works fine but when I try to connect from a remote client the connection times out. I have tried to connect to the FTP-server from the localhost and it works flawlessly.

I figured that it should be some trouble with the firewall so I went into firewall settings and disabled the Public Profile and my remote connections worked!

In my inbound rules there are rules for FTP-connections to allow all profiles etc. I guess they are made automatically when setting up the FTP-server.

Anyone got any idea how to allow remote connections without turning off the public firewall?

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