I am trying to connect to my home machine from work through at gftp. It looks like the client succeed in logging in but fails in data connection gftp client output ------------------- Looking up myhome Trying myhome:21 Connected to myhome:21 220 ProFTPD 1.2.4 Server (ProFTPD Default Installation) [myhome] USER anonymous 331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete email address as your password. PASS xxxx 230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply. TYPE I 200 Type set to I. PWD 257 "/" is current directory. PASV 227 Entering Passive Mode (myhome,16,72). Cannot create a data connection: Connection refused Disconnecting from site myhome On server from messages I get the following --------------------------------------------- I am also explicitly allowing the access for the myoffice IP in /etc/hosts.deny Feb 18 15:47:54 snoopy proftpd[11843]: myhome (myoffice [myoffice IP]) - FTP session opened. Feb 18 15:47:56 snoopy kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth1 PROTO=6 144.15.255. 227:21468 myhome:4168 L=60 S=0x00 I=63583 F=0x4000 T=45 SYN (#20) Feb 18 15:47:56 snoopy proftpd[11843]: myhome (myoffice [myoffice IP]) - FTP session closed. Why data connection is failing? Sundar