Primitive ftpd timing out on shield tv

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I'm using the apk version on a shield TV, I tried connecting via samba but didn't work for whatever reasons, since I'm getting time outs I'm almost certain it's over vpn related stuff but wanted to check if there was anything I could do to bypass time outs when connected to a VPN. I use mullvad. Or it might not even be vpn related and just a simple setting I need to uncheck to ensure timeouts stop.