FTP site is hosted in the DMZ, the following error appeared today when a user tried to upload to the site:

“An error occurred copying a file to the FTP Server. Make sure you have permission to put files on the server”

I am not sure why everytime there is a problem with the FTP server or site, it states that it is a permission problem where as this is not the case!

The user had no problem downloading only uploading. Uploading a file is just like the act of creating anything on that space so just create an empty folder or file just to make sure you have write permissions

The problem was the FTP server ran out of space, so it was closing the data session because there was no space available on the host to transfer the data

FTP sites are to exchange files and NOT to store them, we have file servers for that with enough space and regular backups and are placed inside our network behind our firewall for security

So the solution was simply to move old FTP sites and archive them to free up some space and the users were then FTPing away