FTP on ip camera writing to boot drive

[plaumann]

Hi!

This is my first post on the forum. So far I have managed to set everyting I needed up without issues.

BUT: Now I am trying to set up a Dlink ip camera to send FTP photos to my FreeNAS, I thinnk I have done everything correctly, because I have had it working for almost 6 months, but now someting is wrong.

When I set everything up with the path and stuff, the FTP on the camera sends the pictures(movies to the boot drive of the FreeNAS.

Enyone heard of this before?

I have tried different paths, but if I do, the path will be created on the boot drive of the FreeNAS.

Please help...

 

[zambanini]

just a lazy solution: change the home directory of your ftp user in freenas.


since you did not read the faq and so you did not provide information about your system, I guess that you will use FN 9.3

Account -> Users and now search for your user.

 

[plaumann]

Hi!

Sorry, yes, I am running the latest FN 9.3 on an HP Proliant ML350 G6 64GB ECC ram, 8xSAS drives + 6 WD RED 4 TB.

I have tried to change the home directory for the FTP in the freenas GUI, but whatever I put in there a directory is made on the boot drive for the FN.

 

[zambanini]

when you are on the ssh console with root, please do:

su - YOURUSERNAME
pwd
touch testfile

pwd will show the directory you are in at this moment
with touch I will see if you can create a file.

did you test the login part with another ftp client?

 

[plaumann]

Yes, I have tried with Filezilla and I can ony access the FN boot drive, here are dumps of the ypur suggestions: (btw thats not my external IP... ;)

 

[zambanini]

you should use the ftp username..not root....

 

[plaumann]

I have tried other users as well with same result, but if I enable and try anonymous log in it works.

Good enough for me, just using the FTP inside my local network anyway.

Thanks for relpys guys, have a nice christmas! :)

 

[madin3]

Hi plaumann or anyone,
I know its been over a year since you last posted on this issue.
I'm having the exact same problem. I'm not sure how you resolved it.
FTP on IP Camera is writing to boot disk.
Once I manually delete the captured files from the server ("root") then the boot volume used size is reduced.
How do I prevent FTP from saving files to my USB root stick?
What does zambanini mean: "you should use the ftp username..not root...."
My camera will not connect to FTP server unless I use "root"
Could you or someone walk me thru the steps please?

FreeNAS -> Services -> FTP setting:

FileZilla setting:

IP Camera FTP Setting:

My System:
HP Proliant Gen8 microserver g1610t
Build FreeNAS-9.10.2-U2 (e1497f2)
Platform Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz
Memory 16192MB
Boot: 32GB Sandisk USB stick

 

[zambanini]

set another home dir for the username and you shoukd create a unique user for ftp

 

[madin3]

Did that a few weeks ago. Seems to work with Wansview and Sricam but not with Foscam. Do you know of any additional settings on FreeNAS that I should be aware of?
Thanks