In the Active Mode tab, make sure the option “Ask your operating system for the external ip address” is selected. From your Filezilla client, go to Edit -> Settings -> FTP ->Active Mode. In most cases, Resolution 2 should work.ġ. To get rid of this error, do the following steps. Error: The data connection could not be established: EHOSTUNREACH - No route to hostĮrror: Failed to retrieve directory listing Probably, you will get the following error. Enter the FTP server hostname or IP Address, username, password and port number. Open Filezilla client from your client system “Dash” or “Menu”. In the server side, do the following.įor RHEL based systems, you can install filezilla using following command: yum install filezilla yum install iptables-servicesĪllow the default ftp port “21″ through your firewall or router. The following commands should be run on your FTP server, not in ftp clients. If you don’t want to use filezilla, skip the following steps.įirst, enter the following commands one by one to disable current firewall system firewalld, and enable old firewall iptables. I will update this tutorial as soon as possible once I found the working solution.

So I disabled it, and switched back to old firewall system called iptables. I find it bit difficult to configure Filezilla along with Firewalld. So let us install a graphical FTP client called Filezilla to get things done quite easier:Īs you may know already, in RHEL 7 and its derivatives the previous firewall system(iptables) has been replaced with firewalld. Working from command-line mode might be little bit difficult to newbies.

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