FastSCP Timing Out
Saturday, March 8th, 2008Ever found that FastSCP (the best file copying tool around for ESX!!) times out when trying to copy files to your ESX box? Do you get the following error:
Transfer timeout. No data transferred in the last 20 seconds
Operation canceled
I did and I worked out what the problem was!
It’s all to do with the ESX firewall. FastSCP uses a range of ports from 2000 - 2500 by default. These ports are not open by default in ESX so you either open them, fairly easy to do using the command line, or you do what I did and used the GUI to do it for me. (more…)
