Your answer may lie within the response you are getting from FileZilla. "Response: 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV." Try using a passive connection. I am not sure if FileZilla has that option, CuteFTP should. Do you still get the same results? -----Original Message----- From: centos-admin at caosity.org [mailto:centos-admin at caosity.org]On Behalf Of Beth Curotto Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 12:16 PM To: CentOS Mailing List Subject: [Centos] ftp ftom outside the local network I have Centos3.3 installed, vsftpd, apache2, ports 20&21 open on router, firewall disabled at this time : /etc/passwd looks like this --- ftpadmin:x:502:502::/var/www:sbin/noligin uncommented the lines in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf : chroot_list_enable=YES chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list I can access ftp from within network no problem, but using external ip it will validate login but cannot bring up folders Any suggestions...... This is the response I get using FileZilla (similar response using CuteFTP) Status: Connecting to 216.201.247.147 ... Status: Connected with 216.201.247.147. Waiting for welcome message... Response: 220 (vsFTPd 1.2.1) Command: USER ftpadmin Response: 331 Please specify the password. Command: PASS ******** Response: 230 Login successful. Command: FEAT Response: 211-Features: Response: MDTM Response: REST STREAM Response: SIZE Response: 211 End Status: Connected Status: Retrieving directory listing... Command: PWD Response: 257 "/" Command: PORT 172,17,2,12,16,230 Response: 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. Command: TYPE A Response: 200 Switching to ASCII mode. Command: LIST Error: Timeout detected! Error: Could not retrieve directory listing