Windows 10 FTP server connection failure

Question

I've set up a Windows 10 file server on a desktop wired to my local network and it's accessible over my local network, but I can only connect to it over internet with one computer, a laptop over wireless, and only when connected to my LAN at home. If I take it across town to my office, I get error message:

An error occurred opening that folder on the FTP server. Make sure you have permsission to access that folder.
Details:
200 type set to A.
227 Entering Passive Mode (10,0,0,xx,xxx,xxx)

I've turned off the firewalls and deactivated anti-virus protection on all 5 of my machines (all Win 10) for testing purposes. I've tried using CuteFTP, Filezilla, WinSCP and Windows explorer over wired and wireless devices.

The FTP clients generate a generic error message that basically says a connection could not be established and/or time out.

I'm stuck on this one laptop connecting easily at home. What does it have that the others don't? What does my home network have that my office doesn't?

Any help is appreciated.

Rip

Answer 1

Ok, I have everything set up as you show in your screenshots. I did add a welcome message; nothing else needed changing. I created the two sites in Filezilla, the 10.0.0.44 works fine. I can read the file tree, grab files etc. The xxx.59.xxx.xxx address generates this error:

Just for clarification, when you say 'log in with a user account', what is meant by this exactly? I'm using the user name and password of my admin account on the server. Correct?

I understand I should be using SFTP, but I thought FTP was simpler and wanted to use it just to get it going, to learn and help my understanding. If it's easy to set up SFTP, I'm game. I already created a certificate for the ftp site. Do I need to create a different one?

What do you make of the error message?

Many thanks,

Rip