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| suggest using google query (martin) | 5.2 When SFTP connection is rejected, knock FTP port. If open suggest using FTP protocol. (martin) | ||
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| But if you are behind NAT router, it would return only the local network address. Then you need to check //Use following external IP address// and fill your external IP address in the box below. You can find your external IP address using many online services, like [[http://whatsmyip.net/|whatsmyip.net]] or [[https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+my+ip|Google]]. | But if you are behind NAT router, it would return only the local network address. Then you need to check //Use following external IP address// and fill your external IP address in the box below. You can find your external IP address using many online services, like [[http://whatsmyip.net/|whatsmyip.net]] or [[https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+my+ip|Google]]. | ||
| + | ===== Connections ===== | ||
| + | Use //When SFTP connection is rejected, knock FTP port// to make WinSCP automatically try to detect, if server supports FTP protocol((For detection, WinSCP tries to open port ''21'' (immeditelly closing it, if succeeds) on the remote host. WinSCP does not send any data to the host. )), when SFTP connection fails. This is to help novice users, who do not realize that WinSCP defaults to SFTP (contrary to most other file transfer clients). &beta_feature | ||