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| Thread ID: 129076 | 2013-02-01 07:03:00 | NAS Storage for Remote Backup | almightynugget (13536) | Press F1 |
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| 1325986 | 2013-02-09 01:57:00 | @OP You really do not want to be using FTP. For a start your login details are transmitted in plain text. Also as per your log, getting it working reliably over a NATted connection can be a bit fiddly as it uses multiple ports for the data transfer, port 21 is generally only for the control messages. Turn off the port forwarding and ftp server and use SFTP (which uses an ssh connection to whatever external port your ssh server is litening on). |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1325987 | 2013-02-09 02:18:00 | @Fred_Fish took your advice switched over to SSH. I am now able to log in remotely :) (don't know why this didn't work yesterday as I did the exact same thing) Big thing though, when i right click a file the download option is grayed out. How would I go about downloading the files? I can open up text files by double clicking on them and then saving it to the pc. (mind you I have yet to try this from a friends house.) |
almightynugget (13536) | ||
| 1325988 | 2013-02-09 02:24:00 | Using Filezilla? Not sure, should "just work". If you can read it, you can download it. Opening the text file actually downloads it to a local temp folder before showing it to you anyway. You got a writable location in the other pane? (for the 'download to' folder). |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1325989 | 2013-02-09 02:36:00 | yeah im using filezilla, and yes i see what you mean now. cool so I can now download files and it does "just work" :) One last thing I wanted to know. I want to also map the drive remotely for scheduled backups. Is this possible with freeNAS? Trying to do so gives me this message: "The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occurred: The specified server cannot perform the requested operation." Does that mean that there is an option to allow this feature through freeNAS, or does it mean that it doesn't support that? |
almightynugget (13536) | ||
| 1325990 | 2013-02-09 02:49:00 | No you cannot map a network drive, that uses the SMB protocol. A simple script with rsync (available for win also) would be an easy way. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1325991 | 2013-02-09 08:26:00 | The only way you'd be able to do that was if you setup VPN access back to the network, that sounds like something you're probably interested in because you can then use your regular SMB mapped network drives etc... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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