mhelms1961
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Hi group,
I am attempting to set up an FTP folder that I can share with others. It will mainly be used to exchange video files as I am using an overseas resource to do the video edits. I have set up an FTP share on windows as well as a Netgear ready share drive connected to the router via usb. I can’t seem to find a straight forward list of steps to set up a shared FTP folder for FreeNas and I have been looking high and low. I have been accessing the file share on windows and ready share by typing the following address in the web browser FTP://ftpuser:password@177.98.94.111:4521/shares/ “ip address is as example not the real thing” but that format gets me into the folder via a browser.
I was thinking these would be the steps
1. I have reserved an IP address on my netgear router for the FreeNas server 192.168.1.125
2. I set up an FTP service on the router, and selected 192.168.1.125 and assigned 4521 as the internal and external port
3. I set up an ftpuser account
4 I set up a dataset for the ftp share
5. I enabled the ftp service on FreeNas
6. I setup a shared folder and used the path of the dataset I created in step 4
When I put the url FTP://ftpuser:password@177.98.94.111:4521/shares/ into a browser it gives me a login request, which it shouldn’t” and nothing happens.
I keep ready about “FileZilla” on the blogs to set up FTP on FreeNas but not sure why I need that when I don’t have to fool with it in Windows or Netgear. Any suggestions or links to step by step FreeNas step by step FTP setup would be appreciated as I am obviously missing a step.
Thanks!
I am attempting to set up an FTP folder that I can share with others. It will mainly be used to exchange video files as I am using an overseas resource to do the video edits. I have set up an FTP share on windows as well as a Netgear ready share drive connected to the router via usb. I can’t seem to find a straight forward list of steps to set up a shared FTP folder for FreeNas and I have been looking high and low. I have been accessing the file share on windows and ready share by typing the following address in the web browser FTP://ftpuser:password@177.98.94.111:4521/shares/ “ip address is as example not the real thing” but that format gets me into the folder via a browser.
I was thinking these would be the steps
1. I have reserved an IP address on my netgear router for the FreeNas server 192.168.1.125
2. I set up an FTP service on the router, and selected 192.168.1.125 and assigned 4521 as the internal and external port
3. I set up an ftpuser account
4 I set up a dataset for the ftp share
5. I enabled the ftp service on FreeNas
6. I setup a shared folder and used the path of the dataset I created in step 4
When I put the url FTP://ftpuser:password@177.98.94.111:4521/shares/ into a browser it gives me a login request, which it shouldn’t” and nothing happens.
I keep ready about “FileZilla” on the blogs to set up FTP on FreeNas but not sure why I need that when I don’t have to fool with it in Windows or Netgear. Any suggestions or links to step by step FreeNas step by step FTP setup would be appreciated as I am obviously missing a step.
Thanks!
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