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Showing posts with label Failed to retrieve directory Listing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Failed to retrieve directory Listing. Show all posts

Friday, January 6, 2012

IIS FTP Configuration - Failed to retrieve directory listing error in FTP Filezilla Client


After I configured the FTP site in IIS on Windows Server 2003 and added permission to a new FTP user on my FTP directory I ran into the following problem with my FTP Filezilla Client when trying to establish a connection to FTP Server. Output error: Failed to retrieve directory listing.  In my case Filezilla Client normally established a connection but the client did not want to list my directories. After I checked all options in IIS I thought of seeing what is enabled in Windows Firewall. There I found a setting that solved my problem:


In Control Panel -> Windows Firewall -> Advanced tab click settings and check FTP Server to enable access.


That was it! My FTP connection then worked as expected.