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FTP will not start
Hello All, My very lightly used ReadyNAS Duo is giving me some trouble. I disabled FTP some time back as the NAS was in a public place, and now that's I've brought it home with me, I'm in need of...
Hi Jenn!
I rebooted earlier in the day and it didn't make any difference. There were errors about tcp/bind but I had no idea what caused the port to be occupied. So I upgraded the firmware and rebooted and when it came back up, it worked.
Note: updated firmware to present version, and rebooted. It works, now. Not sure what was preventing the ftp server from starting, but that appears to be resolved for now. I had rebooted earlier, but that didn't fix it like I had hoped. Unsure of the cause.
Hello GaWd,
Sorry, I got confused there, did you reboot and it did not resolve before you updated the firmware?
Regards,
Hi Jenn!
I rebooted earlier in the day and it didn't make any difference. There were errors about tcp/bind but I had no idea what caused the port to be occupied. So I upgraded the firmware and rebooted and when it came back up, it worked.
Hello GaWd,
I see. It must be the old firmware's FTP had problems.
Regards,
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