Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:23 Post subject: USB NAS (EXT4) accessable through Samba but not Filezilla
Hi all,
Since my topic was closed in 'DD-WRT Forum Forum Index -> General Questions' for no given reason, I guess a mod thought of it as being device specific.
It is not, if you ask me. I just mentioned my Router to inform everyone as good as possible. Never the less, based in my assumption I post it in the device specific section and hope to find an answer to the problem.
I am running a Netgear WNDR4300 with DD-WRT v24-sp2 (03/25/13) std. Since I need some energy efficient FTP storage, I decided to use the NAS functionality of my router. So I inserted an 16GB usb stick that I formatted to ext4 on Ubuntu 14 and mounted it at the Services -> USB tab.
Quote:
--- /dev/sda
Block device, size 15.31 GiB (16441481728 bytes)
DOS/MBR partition map
Partition 1: 15.31 GiB (16441449472 bytes, 32112206 sectors from 63, bootable)
Type 0x83 (Linux)
Ext4 file system
Volume name "NetGearNAS"
UUID C9E564EF-D2AC-42F5-84D0-54598E894186 (DCE, v4)
Last mounted at "/tmp/mnt/sda_part1"
Volume size 15.31 GiB (16441446400 bytes, 4014025 blocks of 4 KiB)
Status: Mounted on /mnt
Next I enabled the ProFTPD pretty straight forward, using the /mnt as file directory, allowing write access and am using the password list for Authentication.
I experience no difficulties in connecting with Filezilla, but am not able to open the sda_part1 directory.
Quote:
Command: CWD sda_part1
Response: 550 sda_part1: No such file or directory
Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing
When I share the directory with Samba it all works fine, but I need FTP access. I noticed the difference in the path I was able to choose between Samba and FTP, but do not thing that is the problem. I even tried a chmod 777 at "/tmp/mnt/sda_part1" but that was no success either. Without the usb stick mounted, I am able to use the FTP server without a problem, so I believe the problem lies in accessing the usb storage.
In addition to the original text, I was told today that it might have something to do with my running Windows 8.1. To be honest, i doubt it is. Never the less, I will have a go from Ubuntu this evening just to make sure it is not a Windows 8.1 issue. I will post an update this evening about my Ubuntu results. Earlier tests where done with Filezilla 3.9.0.6 in case it is of any importance.
Anyway, I am pretty much stuck at the moment and hoping someone is able to point me in the right direction.
Joined: 24 Feb 2013 Posts: 1634 Location: Belgrade
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 10:19 Post subject:
It is very hard to troubleshoot your problem since you are using buils which is more then year and a half old... and there were so many fixes since than. ProFTPd and NAS and Samba share works very good for me on 11/11/2014 build 25309... And everything with few click from GUI... with couple of partititions (linux swap, 2xext3 for jffs ond opt and ntfs for data)... although I didnt tried with ext4...
Mile-Lile, thanks for your reply.
I installed this version march 15th this year. A quick peek at the Router Database does not show a more recent software version.
