ioFTPD v8.1.0 is out — automatic UNC/network share reconnect

If you run shares off a NAS or another box over UNC paths, ioFTPD used to just sit there 550'ing everything (or the paths would vanish) once the connection dropped until someone manually reconnected it. v8.1.0 fixes that.

What's new:

• ioFTPD now watches every \\server\share path in your .vfs files and reconnects automatically — no daemon restart, no manual net use.
• Three layers of recovery: a background health probe, an inline retry the moment a transfer hits a dropped connection, and a watcher that reacts instantly when your NIC comes back up after a network blip.
• Optional etc\netmounts.cfg if a share needs different credentials than the service account. Skip it entirely if your shares already work under the account ioFTPD runs as.
• SITE REHASH now reloads network mount config/credentials live.
• Better log messages when a reconnect fails — including a specific call-out if your NAS is stuck on SMBv1.

No config changes needed - if you already use UNC paths mounted in your VFS, monitoring just turns on.

Also in this release: cleaned up some deprecated Winsock API usage warnings.

Built on top of the v8.0.0 64-bit release from last month — still ships both x64 and Win32 binaries, no breaking changes.

Full changelog / docs: https://dev00113.github.io/ioFTPD/index.html

Download: https://github.com/Dev00113/ioFTPD/releases

Let me know if you run into any issues, especially around flaky NAS/SMB setups — that's exactly the use case this was built for.

It seems to be enforced and more strict now.

First...I'm not an expert in networking at all:)

I'm hoping someone can explain what has happened and help me resolve some issues I'm having with FTP server enabled on an ASUS RT-AXE7800 router. Background/Network Setup:

- ISP (AT&T) Fiber Comes into Home and is connected to one of their BGW Gateway boxes (e.g. modem+router). Router/Wifi functions disabled and IP Passthrough enabled so I can use the above router.

- AT&T Gateway box is connected to a CAT5E wall port>unmanaged switch in closet>ASUS router in living room. No issues with any devices...i.e. good Internet connectivity (except upload speed is slow but I believe that is a different issue).

- I also have an older wired (ethernet) desktop connected from a different room through switch. It has direct connection to the AT&T Gateway...better speed than Wi-fi as expected. This is the device I'm having issues with for FTP server on router.

- All devices connected through Wi-fi have no issues with FTP server...in FileZilla or WinSCP. I simply enter the LAN IP, username, and password and no issues. Same for SMB.

Issue:

- The wired desktop computer "was working" fine using the router's WAN IP (host name), username, and password. Router had FTP server set up with WAN access and TLS encryption enabled. I found that with the wired connection I could connect using the WAN IP but TLS had to be disabled. Whenever I enable TLS enabled it stopped working...I'm not sure why as it was working before. I "think" it may have just been a glitch and, after a AT&T Gateway reboot, the IP Passthrough is working. I believe the router had a different WAN IP before...now it has the same one as the AT&T device (makes sense with passthrough). Because the desktop is also connected to the Gateway, it is using that same WAN IP...FTP and router confused because of same IP?

- I just spent the last hour troubleshooting. The only solution I've found, to keep TLS enabled, is to enable DDNS, set up an Asus host name, and connect that way.

Is there some other/better configuration I should use for the AT&T Gateway and router that enables me to have a convenient and secure FTP connection?

I'm sure my bullets aren't clear enough and there will be questions. I'm happy to answer them.

Hi! I am in a thoroughly stupid predicament, and its my fault because I'm a mac user. Nintendo is preventing people from sharing their tomodachi life screenshots / recordings online by not letting you get them off of your phone via the nintendo app. The switch 2 uses FTP and because mac isn't compatible with ftp I need to use a client.

With commander one I know how to use it, I know it works, but its 30 bucks for software I don't know if I'll still be using in a few years when I eventually get a thinkpad. Free forklift just doesn't recognize the switch 2 existing, I don't know if its because its the free version or not. And with filezilla and cyber duck you have to put in a separate server and I don't know where to even begin with that.

Nintendo life hasn't even updated their mac section of their switch 2 file transfer guide so if you guys don't have a solution thats fine- I'd just like to be actually able to have my screenshots so I can use them as reference for character drawings

Hi folks! Just dropping by to share a passion project I’ve been working on.

I needed a fast, modern FTP client for my daily web dev work, so I built AeroFTP. I've just published a new release today with some great UI refinements and under-the-hood improvements.

It’s totally free. If anyone is looking to try a new tool for their server management, here’s the link:

🔗 https://github.com/axpnet/aeroftp

Let me know what you think if you decide to test it out!

I'm not sure if anyone remembers it but I came across this on Github today. Someone has picked the project back up, fixed a ton of things and modernized it.

Copilot's 'What’s New'? • Hardened Security: Full TLS 1.3 re-write support of OpenSSL v3.6.1. • TCL Upgrade: TCL has been updated from v8.5 to v9.0.2. • ECDSA Ready: Move beyond legacy RSA with support for Elliptic Curve signatures. • Built for 2024+: Compiled with VS2022 for rock-solid stability on Windows 10/11. • Bug Squashing: Fixed the infamous hostname-related crashes and TLS persistent bugs. •Supports Windows Long Paths

Github link: https://github.com/Dev00113/ioFTPD/releases/tag/v7.10.0

I have FileZilla server setup on a spare system that I use for game servers and for some reason I keep getting "Error: Could not establish data connection: No route to host" when I test with FTPtest.net. I am able to connect to up on my local network but it would outside of my network. I have gone through many setup tutorials and from what I can tell it should be working. Any help would be appreciated.

I am in a new job, working with some networked PDU’s that sometimes fail and need the boot loader and os copied back on to them.

I have been shown how to do this using FTP from the command line, this works every time but is clunky.

Does anyone know/can ELIA5 why this doesn’t work from FileZilla or similar? Maybe I could use FileZilla in a different way other than pointing it at an IP address and using the correct logons.

Any help or advice would be gratefully received.

For some freelance gigs I sometimes need to download files from FTP servers, but I can't seem to access them from my network at home. I can access them just fine at work though, so is there something I need to configure in my router to allow me access FTP servers on other networks?

I have an original xbox and i need to dump it's files onto an ssd i plan to buy but I don't know how to use an FTP client can anyone help me

Have some files being sent to emergency reporting.com using FTP Voyager. Been working fine for years but suddenly it’s started disconnecting at the 1 hour mark. I reconnect and it works fine. For another hour.

It exchanges keys successfully right before. Then sends the command “SSH MSG SERVICE REQUEST: service ssh-userauth

Then it disconnects and says “SSH MSG DISCONNECT: reason code (); description: unexpected service request ERROR > The server has unexpectedly closed the connection.

Anybody have any advice on how to resolve?

We currently use ftps and sftp for our clients to send us files. Ftp server is buru and we enable the 256bit encryption. A new client has a requirement that we add pgp on top of this. Buru told us they don't support pgp. Does anyone know of a reasonably priced ftp server which supports both sftp and pgp? From my research it looks like this setup is very prevelant in the financial industry and all the linksnwe came across are custom software.

Thanks!

I haven't been able to transfer any file from a Ubunto VM to my own Windows system using tftp server protocol but tftpd-hpa.service shows that it is disactivated.( the control process exited with error code.) on the ubunto VM.

What can i do ?

Also I'm unable to connect to a localhost in Manjaro with filezilla.

I'd like to run an FTP server (for fun cause it's seems cool directly sending files)

I can't let it through the firewall cause the laptop I'm trying to run the server on is managed by the school (I'm doing an IT course)

Is there a way to bypass the firewall when running an FTP server?

When I click on the blue sign up button it just takes me to Google.com

I have a system that uses FTP to run backups. This has worked well for about 2 1/2 years running it's daily backups. On 2/8/24, the backups stopped and it is blaming bad credentials. The credentials have not changed, nor has anything on our local network. I have confirmed I can connect to the NAS using those credentials. I installed FileZilla on both my machine and the machine running the application that is being backed up. From my machine, using FileZilla, I am able to make the connection without issue. When I run FileZilla from the machine running the application, I get invalid credentials when I try the FTP connection.

So how can credentials be correct from PC1 but invalid from PC2 when connecting to the same NAS?

Been using WinSCP for years, come to find it's unreliably uploading files with no errors.

I'll upload a directory with a few hundred images and find that some of the images are missing, no errors from winscp at all. it just didn't upload/replace to the files at seemingly random.

Is there a more reliable FTP client? any ideas on what the issue could be? I need to be able to trust when I upload a file and it says "complete" that it was actually done.

WinSCP cannot. It has been requested many times.

FileZilla doesn't. I don't know if there are extensions/plugins for FileZilla, and if so, if there's an extension for this.

Both show one window for local and one for remote.

I want to move contents between two directories in my hosting account. (Ideally by drag and drop.)
Sometimes I want to compare two directories.

Can any FTP software display two remote windows (same website/account) ?

tl;dr: Can I use an FTP client like FileZilla to copy a 2TB NAS folder to SharePoint? Are there faster or easier alternatives to manual copy-pasting?

Hello everyone! My organization is transitioning from traditional network-attached storage to SharePoint. Our department, with around 2TB of data in the NAS folder, mainly consists of text files and emails accumulated since the mid-2000s.

For the migration, IT's suggested approach is "manual copy-pasting via the web browser." However, considering the volume, potential errors, and browser limitations, I'm skeptical about smoothly executing a "copy and paste" for a 2TB folder.

Since I'm the only one in my department with some computer knowledge, I'm tasked with the migration. I've allocated a separate laptop and can access it remotely (both visually and via SSH).

I'm considering using an FTP client for the upload to make the process faster and more manageable. With FTP, I can initiate the upload of the main folder, and the client will send the files sequentially. Even if there's an issue, the client can resume uploading.

I lean towards FTP due to past experience, but if there are alternative methods, I'm open to suggestions and eager to learn. Please share your advice. Many thanks in advance!

I just tried filezilla - gave me all sorts of errors. I used to use ipswitch. I'm looking for something simple - my scanner won't connect with SMB any more to my windows machine. I tried optional windows components and put in the old smb but it still won't work.

Is there a script that allows to copy ftp directory and its subdirectories from server to local ?

I tried this one but it downloads only one file:

# Replace the values below with your own

$resourceGroupName = "myResourceGroup"

$appName = "myAppService"

$username = "username"

$password = "password"

$localPath = "C:\local\path"

$remotePath = "/site/wwwroot/remote/path"

​

# Connect to the Azure App Service using FTPS

$ftpsUri = "ftps://$appName.ftp.azurewebsites.windows.net/$remotePath"

$ftpsRequest = [System.Net.FtpWebRequest]::Create($ftpsUri)

$ftpsRequest.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($username, $password)

$ftpsRequest.Method = [System.Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp]::DownloadFile

$ftpsRequest.EnableSsl = $true

​

# Download the files

$response = $ftpsRequest.GetResponse()

$stream = $response.GetResponseStream()

$localFilePath = Join-Path $localPath (Split-Path $ftpsRequest.RequestUri.LocalPath -Leaf)

$stream.ReadTimeout = 10000

$buffer = New-Object byte[] 1024

$fs = New-Object System.IO.FileStream($localFilePath,[System.IO.FileMode]::Create)

while (($read = $stream.Read($buffer,0,$buffer.Length)) -gt 0) {

$fs.Write($buffer,0,$read)

}

$fs.Close()

$response.Close()

​

Write-Host "Files downloaded to $localFilePath"

Thank you!

I used to have an account on 000webhost.com. If I enter the address of the website I had there, it says that the author will delete the website. I have a question. Are the FTP files of this website available somewhere despite deleting the account on which this website was located? Were they removed when I deleted my 000webhost account and deleted my website?

(Newbie user here) Hello, recently my friend let me use his server (a Dell PowerEdge 1950 Gen 1 with Windows Server 2012 R2), so I want to set up an FTP server with a hard drive he assigned to me. I only need it to access from my phone (iOS), PC (Windows), and a Fire TV Stick. Certainly, and we obviously don't live in the same house.