I am trying to set up FTP service on my win 7 ultimate installation. I am asking this here because windows server 2008 r2 is the only other OS that comes natively with iis 7.5. Everything connects fine and directories are listed via active mode using filezilla, but passive mode results in error: Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (xx,xxx,xx,xx,220,146) Command: LIST Response: 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection. Error: Connection timed out Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing I have run the following: netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="FTP (non-SSL)" action=allow protocol=TCP dir=in localport=21 netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="FTP Service" action=allow service=ftpsvc protocol=tcp dir=in netsh advfirewall set global StatefulFtp enable With no luck; if I turn windows firewall off, everything works. I have the Data Channel Port Range Set and the External IP Address of the FireWall. Any Thoughts?

Nevermind, the solution was to set the port range to "0-0" to take advantage of the Windows TCP/IP dynamic port range.