This won’t work with the secure FTPS as the control connection is encrypted and the firewall cannot monitor it. So you do not need to have whole port range opened all the time, even when not in use. Some external firewalls are able to monitor FTP control connection and automatically open and close the data connection ports as needed. If you have multiple virtual machines running an FTP server, you can reuse the configured network security group.Ĭlick Apply action to submit your settings. Type port range in a format min-max (e.g.Create rule for FTP data connections according to the range you specified when :.Click the OK button and wait for the rule to be created.
Create rule for the FTP control connection:.Go to the Network page of your virtual machine.You need to open/forward ports in Cloud / Azure firewall/NAT for use with FTP server. Locate Microsoft FTP Service and click Restart service To restart FTP service go to Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools and open Services. Any time you change this range, you will need to restart FTP service Use a Data Channel Port Range box for that. In such case, you need to tell the FTP server to use only the range that is opened on the firewall. You won’t probably want to open whole default port range 1024-65535. When behind an external firewall, you need to open ports for data connections (obviously in addition to opening an FTP port 21 and possibly an implicit TLS/SSL FTP port 990). On Cloud like Azure you will find the external IP address in Public IP address section of the virtual machine page. Specify your server’s external IP address.In IIS Manager, open FTP > FTP Firewall Support.If your server is behind an external firewall/ NAT, you need to tell the FTP server its external IP address, to allow passive mode connections. Self-signed certificates created by IIS Manager do not work with FTPS clients that check for key usage violations. To create a certificate with a correct key usage, use New-SelfSignedCertificate PowerShell as an Administrator: New-SelfSignedCertificate -CertStoreLocation cert:\localmachine\my -DnsName Servers behind external Firewall/NAT Click on Create Self-Signed Certificate action.In IIS Manager, open IIS > Server Certificates.You may also create a self-signed certificate locally, but there will be warning when connecting to the server. Ideally, you should acquire the certificate from a certificate authority. You need a TLS/ SSL certificate to secure your FTP server. Make sure that Management Service > IIS Management Console is checked.Check FTP Server > FTP Service role service.In Windows Server Manager go to Roles node and in Web Server (IIS) > Role Services panel click Add Role Services.Make sure Management Service > IIS Management Console role service is checked. Uncheck Web Server role service, if you do not need it. Proceed to Role Services step and check FTP Server > FTP Service role service.Proceed to Server Roles step and check Web Server (IIS) role.In Windows Server Manager go to Roles node and in Roles Summary panel click Add Roles.Proceed to the end of the wizard and click Install.Un check Web Server role service, if you do not need it. Proceed to Web Server Role (IIS) > Role Services step and check FTP Server role service.Confirm installing IIS Management Console tool. Note that it is checked already, if you had IIS installed as a Web Server previously. Proceed to Installation Type step and confirm Role-based or feature-based installation.In Windows Server Manager go to Dashboard and run Manage > Add Roles and Features.You can now download ( Get) or upload ( Put) files to the specified tftp server.On Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2012 Specify the IP address of the TFTP server and the connection port (69 by default) in the TFTP Client tab. The tftpd64 program can be used as a TFTP client. You can now connect to TFTPserver to send or download files.New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName 'TFTP-UDP-In' -Direction Inbound -Action Allow -Protocol UDP -LocalPort 69 Create a Windows Firewall rule using PowerShell: Open UDP port 69 in the Windows Firewall for incoming TFTP traffic.You must restart the app after changing the TFTP settings.In the TFTP Server tab, click the Settings button, and select the root directory you want to share There are several tabs in the tftpd64 interface.You can download the tftpd64 portable or installation package here. The most common way to quickly run a TFTP server on Windows is to use the free open-source tftpd64 ( tftpd32) tool. Installing Built-in TFTP Server on Windows Server.