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Whist I am pondering a full NAS upgrade a little issue has come up that is bugging me.
Here's what I am trying to achieve. I have a couple of IP cams on my home network. I have them set up to respond to motion, which prompts capture of stills/video which are then emailed to me, and also saved to an FTP client on a spare PC I have. Works fine.
I am now thinking, well if the NAS is up and running, and has FTP, why bother with that PC as well, and use the NAS as the target for image captures instead.
I messed with FTP a while ago on the NAS, but have now reconfigured it a little, with a new share and a specific user account with R/W access to that share. I have tested this using a Windows client and File Explorer, and also using FileZilla client. Both allow connections to the FTP site using the new userid, and I can transfer content to the FTP share. This is then visible via FileZilla, Win Explorer or an FTP browser session. Excellent.
Then the odd bit. I reconfigured the cam so that instead of pointing to the Win PC/FTP, it looks to the FTP on the NAS instead. There's a "test" function in the camera config, but when I try it, the following error is returned
"Test ... Failed Can not upload file. Please be sure your account is authorized"
Now I don't profess to be an FTP expert but given other sources can log onto the share and transfer data, I'm puzzled. I've even reset the cam to factory and started over, no change. If this involved external access then fair enough, it might be tricky, but everthing is on the same network. I have to be missing something really obvious, but cannot see it!
Any suggestions? Thankyou.
The problem with many embedded ftp clients is that they want to upload to the ftp root - this is where the ReadyNas does not allow to upload date, instead the client has first to choose a shared folder ... unless your cameras can be configured to upload to a certain path, there won't be much luck.
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Are the cameras using the same account/passwords as you were using with FileZilla?
Also, are they using straight FTP? Or are they using SFTP or FTPS?
Regarding the FTP. account, that’s why I created a fresh one on the NAS, as a clean slate.
I populate that account into either FileZilla or Windows depending how I’m connecting, and it’s all fine. Put the same account info into the cam config, no go. As far as I can see it’s just regular FTP across the board, but I’ll double check in case there were options I overlooked, though I can’t recall any other settings/options right now.
Masquerading could be a factor. FileZilla can work around masquerading issues, but other clients can't. If the cameras are on the home network, then make sure it isn't used on the NAS.
Also, there are two flavors of FTP - passive and active. The dominant setup is passive, but it is possible that the camera needs active.
If you have a link to the camera user guide, perhaps post that.
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