PS3 FTP server stopped working with both Multiman and Webman

[pickinanameainteasy]

Hello, I have been trying to free up space on my internal hard drive by offloading some games to an external device to play with ps3netsrv. I had been using Multiman before but it was unable to load the games from the external device so i installed webman and it was able to load the games.

Last night I attempted to FTP the games to my external hard drive, but i have been running into lots of issues. I attempted to move a 5 GB game from the internal hard drive via ftp with webman. The connection kept having to re-login over and over and the transfer took upwards of 6 hours and just froze with about 1200 files left to transfer.

In the past I have used multiman for FTP and never had these kind of issues. My first thought was i had an ftp server running with both multiman and webman and maybe the external drive was running into issues due to that, so i disabled multiman's ftp completely and just tried webman. Same problem. So i thought maybe multiman just had a better ftp implementation so i disabled webman's ftp, rebooted, then enabled multiman ftp. Now i cannot connect to ftp when only multiman's is running, i just get connection refused in filezilla.

So i disabled multiman's ftp, rebooted, enabled webman's ftp, rebooted and tried again. The issue persisted and transferring the game keeps failing.

Some research led me to a few things: don't run any other software while ftping (which i haven't been) and limit the number of concurrent connections in filezilla. So i followed this guide to set up filezilla: https://www.psx-place.com/threads/guide-how-to-successfully-ftp-huge-amount-of-files.22434/

Now when i log in in filezilla it says the log in was successful but the 'retrieving directory listing fails'. It just freezes here until it says it fails. I tried flipping all of the settings that i changed on and off 1 by 1 and nothing seems to change it. I worried maybe i set the transfer speed too high. This guide says use 90% of max transfer speed between ps3 and pc. Which theoretically would be 100 Mbps so i just put 9000 KiB.

i opened up wireshark to see if i could figure out and this is the log on sequence i show:
AUTH TLS
AUTH SSL
user anonymous
pass [email protected]
PWD
TYPE I
PORT: 192,168,0,8,203,171

Then nothing after this but keep-alive packets. Has anyone had this issue before?

 

[pickinanameainteasy]

I'm gonna leave this here if anyone else stumbles on this. I deleted my filezilla settings which were located at ~/.config/filezilla and opened it back up with blank settings. I used the following settings and it is performing much better:

I turned on keep-alive packets and did limit the number of connections to 1 in the site manager. The only thing i have done differently to the guide is not set active mode in settings or the site manager. And i did not check "limit local ports used by filezilla"

So far no disconnects and no failed transfers. (NOTE the red circles don't need to be the same as the ones in the screen shot. My max transfer speed is like 12 Megabytes/second so i just set it to 9000 KiB, and obviously put your ps3's ip in the other red circle). And this is with Webman Mod, i still don't know what is wrong with multiman's ftp

 

[pickinanameainteasy]

With this method, what was taking 6+ hours yesterday full transferred in about 15 minutes