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create non password protected FTP folder
Hi, Im using readyshare which is password protected by the gateway admin password. I want to create a folder for ftp that does not use the administrator password. from what I have read this can...
> [...] (anonomyous ftp) [...]
I can't recall ever seeing an anonomyous FTP server as a feature on a
Netgear consumer-grade (modem+)router. Feel free to suggest:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/idb-p/idea-exchange-for-home
I wouldn't hold my breath.
Assuming that ReadySHARE works properly, you should be able to run a
more capable FTP server on some other system on your LAN, and that FTP
server could use the storage which is attached to (served by) your
C6220.
If nothing else, I'd expect a Raspberry Pi do do the job at low cost
and low power. (But perhaps not especially high speed.)
> One of the drawbacks of cable modem/routers is that, thanks to the
> ISPs, Netgear can't make any changes to the firmware. So adding to
> features like ReadySHARE is not possible.
Yow. From where, exactly, do think that the firmware for a Netgear
modem+router comes, if not Netgear? The ISP governs what gets loaded
onto devices which are connected to its network. It does not, in
general, exercise control over features offered by the device vendor.
That would be absurd.
> [...] just a wild guess based on not knowing what you really want to
> achieve. [...]
"Anonymous FTP server" was pretty clear to some of us. For others:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol#Anonymous_FTP
All, Im using a C6220, but I dont think my quesiton is limited to that device. Let me restate again:
I want to FTP (from my surveilance camera) to a NON password protected folder on my USB drive connected to readyshare. I have uploaded a screen shot of the settings for this on the Netgear control panel.
1) if you check to Admin password protect FTP, then what does it mean to apply no password to the subfolders - look at what I have circled in the attached screen shot.
If FTP is PW protected, then is it even possilbe to have an unprotected sub folder, as the console suggests? Or is this console wrong and mis leading.
2) I have been able to set ftp from my camera to dump clips into the USB parent directory- Rdrive. I don't what them in wiht every thing else but in a sub directory called surveilance. I have included this directory in the path name for FTP but I get an error that no such directory exists. FTP seems to only work with the parent directory.
It woudl be great to hear from somebody who has gone thru setting this up themselves. Thanks
dan
