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User Guide MeeBox NAS
Enabling the FTP service
23. In your web browser, go to http://meebox:8090/, log in, and click MeeBox Settings.
24. Click Advanced Settings.
25. In the menu, click Apps & Services, then click File Server.
26. Under FTP Server Setting, select the Enable check box.
27. Click Save.
In your FTP client program, specify your public IP address as the host address, and enter
the username and password of a user account that exists on the server.
Folders accessible through FTP
You can access the same folders on your MeeBox through FTP as you can through
Windows networking. However, the way they are organized looks a little different. When
you use Windows networking (that is, when you access the network location \\meebox),
you see the various shared and private folders all in one place. But when you use FTP,
most of the shares—inlcuding all private folders and the public shared folder—are shown
as subfolders of the folder ide3. At the same level as ide3 are the folders ide4 (if you have
a second internal hard drive installed) and usb1 and usb2 (if you have USB devices
attached).
Another difference between FTP and Windows networking is that when you use FTP,
private folders other than your own are hidden.
There is one more difference: when you use FTP, you can see certain folders in ide3 that
are not visible when you use Windows networking. The most important of these is htdocs,
which is the folder that contains all the web pages used by your MeeBox’s built-in web
server. (See Setting up a website, below.)
Below is a representation of the default directory structure that is visible to user ―admin‖
through FTP.
Tip
If you sometimes need to allow people without a
user account to remotely upload or download
files on your MeeBox, you can tell them to log in
through FTP anonymously (without entering a
username or password). The server will log them
in using the “guest” account. This account has
read/write access to the guest-share folder, but
no access to other folders. If you have files you
want guest users to be able to download, copy
them into the guest-share folder.
Guest access is disabled by default. To enable it,
go to Advanced Settings > Apps & Services > File
Server and select the “Enable” check box under
Guest Access Setting.
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