I am having a lot of trouble setting up anonymous FTP on my ReadyNAS Duo V2.
I turned on the server and selected anonymous access. I filled in the masquerade field with my static external IP.
I pointed port 21 to the ReadyNAS fixed IP on my local LAN.
I try to log into the server from my lan using the local IP. I get a login prompt.Type anonymouse or ftp for the user name, get a meesage that anonynous logins are alllowed, enter email as password. Enter password, Login fails, unknown user.
Checked the Readynas proftpd log file see; USER Anonymous: no such user found
Looked at the passwd file, no ftp user. Looked in /etc/default/config/etc/passwd; has an entry ftp:x:97:97::/home/ftp:/bin/false
Copied that user to /etc/passwd. Anon login works locally. Tried from the internet. Cannot connect to server using external IP. Don't think it is my networking, as I can set up FTP and point the router to a Linux computer and everything works great.
Found that whenever I make a change to the FTP setup or the FTP share from frontview it wipes the ftp user from the passwd file. I can set up a user account and password for ftp and that works OK. Still no access from outside my LAN though.
I am out of ideas anyone have a suggestion as to where I sould look?
I added the ftp user back into the passwd file and then used pwconv to copy to the shadow file. Now I can log in anonymously using either ftp or anonymous as a user name. I can make changes to the ftp service via frontview with no issues, but if I make changes to the share I have assigned for ftp, it wipes the ftp user from the passwd and shadow file and I have to manually add back. Don't know why.
As for access from the internet, that had to do with opening ports for passive ftp on my router, something I didn't have to do using vsftp from another linux system. So after arranging that on the router and via the frontview config, I can connect via active and passive ftp.
So the only issue I have left is that the ftp user gets removed if I make changes to a share that has ftp access enabled.
Also, I want to change the login message, I tried adding a ServerIdent line to /etc/proftpd.conf but it gets wiped whenever stop/starting or making changes to the ftp service from frontview, is there a way to add custom configuration?
