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Bogo
Jul 01, 2016Tutor
Cant access Nas with Ftp works localy to access nas with normal network
Whenever i try to connect to my nas with ftp i get error "ECONNREFUSED - connection refuced by server" when trying from my windows phone and disable the wireless so it gets an external ipadress it ge...
- Jul 04, 2016
Bogo wrote:
Edit:i have checked it all folders in the linkstation have have SFTP on
Ok, SFTP runs on top of SSH, so you only need to open port 22. You can close all of the other ports. You also need an SFTP client. Fortunately, FileZilla supports SFTP.
Needless to say, put a strong password on your NAS.
Bogo
Jul 04, 2016Tutor
Did you remember to set up both your server and client to use passive mode?
hmm the phone does not have that i think will check this more (will set this up on the remove client though
With your new port forwarding rules, you should now be connecting to port 21 with your client, not 50001.
aa ok
Actually, this whole endeavor may be moot. FTP is not encrypted. You should be using an encrypted protocol like SFTP. Does your NAS support it?
yep it does have never set it up though
Edit:
i have checked it all folders in the linkstation have have SFTP on
TheEther
Jul 04, 2016Guru
Bogo wrote:
Edit:i have checked it all folders in the linkstation have have SFTP on
Ok, SFTP runs on top of SSH, so you only need to open port 22. You can close all of the other ports. You also need an SFTP client. Fortunately, FileZilla supports SFTP.
Needless to say, put a strong password on your NAS.