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martin

Re: having same issue

2025-06-19

@dolphsplayground: This is not really a WinSCP question. Please consider asking it at an appropriate site, for example Super User.

If you do, please post a link to your question here.

dolphsplayground

Re: having same issue

2025-06-17 20:08

@martin: No it does not I have turned off all my firewalls and checked everything I can think of. I am truly at a loss right now and have to get this figured out.

martin

Re: having same issue

2025-06-12

@dolphsplayground: Does it work with any other FTP client? I assume it does not, so it's probably a networking or a firewall problem.

dolphsplayground

having same issue

2025-06-10 01:27

I am getting the same error message when trying to connect to the remote server.

martin

Re: I have this problem but found out why

2024-12-09

@diehnel: Please attach a full session log file showing the problem (using the latest version of WinSCP).

To generate the session log file, enable logging, log in to your server and do the operation and only the operation that causes the error. Submit the log with your post as an attachment. Note that passwords and passphrases not stored in the log. You may want to remove other data you consider sensitive though, such as host names, IP addresses, account names or file names (unless they are relevant to the problem). If you do not want to post the log publicly, you can mark the attachment as private.

diehnel

I have this problem but found out why

2024-12-07 15:32

I get the same message with DreamWeaver and WinSCP on my website server. The problem is an issue with the host security certificate. When I use FileZilla to connect I get a return message about the certificate and have to respond to continue. DreamWeaver and WinSCP does NOT return that message, they just time out because the message has not been answered.

martin

Re: Transfer channel can't be opened

2020-10-27

Indeed that error is mostly caused by firewalls:
Transfer channel can’t be opened

But if it started occurring after some successful transfers, it looks implausible. Unless someone changed some firewall settings meanwhile. Can anyone transfer files to/from that server from any other machine?

Guest

Transfer channel can't be opened

2020-10-23 17:11

Seems this error below is fairly common and usually caused by firewall or NAT. I'm not experienced in resolving those issues and hope to get some pointers on what I should be looking for. I have attached log file with identifiable info removed, Thanks for any help.

It was working fine, as I had just pulled files down and it stopped working during transfer after many files had already moved. I have tried reconnecting many times and get the same error every time now.

Transfer channel can't be opened. Reason: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.
Could not retrieve directory listing
Data channel timed out.