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How to access Lacie Hard Drive via ftp?
I have an Lacie NAS External Hard Drive. It has an ftp interface. This unit is plugged into my Netgear DG834 router. From within my local network I have a couple of network cctv cameras that send images to the hard drive via ftp. This works very well.
I have another camera at my mothers house. I want to send the images into my hard drive across the internet. I assumed that all I would have to do is to create a firewall rule in my netgear router which sends ftp traffic to the ip address of the Lacie Hard Drive. It doesn't work. If I try to ftp in Windows Explorer from an external pc it doesn't work either.
So to summarise, I can ftp into this drive without a problem on the local network, but I can't get it to work from the outside world. What might I have done wrong?
Ian
I have another camera at my mothers house. I want to send the images into my hard drive across the internet. I assumed that all I would have to do is to create a firewall rule in my netgear router which sends ftp traffic to the ip address of the Lacie Hard Drive. It doesn't work. If I try to ftp in Windows Explorer from an external pc it doesn't work either.
So to summarise, I can ftp into this drive without a problem on the local network, but I can't get it to work from the outside world. What might I have done wrong?
Ian
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From inside ftp is working perfectly via Windows Explorer and from Dos
From outside, if I use Windows Explorer i get no response, if I use Dos I get 'Connection Timed out'
My Netgear Router has an inbuilt Firewall Rule that can be used to forward FTP traffic to a specified host. This rule claims to utilise TCP ports 20 and 21(See attached screen dump)
I quite successfully used the Netgear Firewall rules to route other kinds of traffic through the router.
Ian
Ian
Netgear-FTP.jpg
From outside, if I use Windows Explorer i get no response, if I use Dos I get 'Connection Timed out'
My Netgear Router has an inbuilt Firewall Rule that can be used to forward FTP traffic to a specified host. This rule claims to utilise TCP ports 20 and 21(See attached screen dump)
I quite successfully used the Netgear Firewall rules to route other kinds of traffic through the router.
Ian
Ian
Netgear-FTP.jpg
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Something strange is happening here..... A couple of times since I got the Lacie hard drive, it has become unresponsive and needed to be re-powered. It did this again this morning after my previous reply to you. When I realised this I repowered it.
I just tried the telnet command from an external source and it worked. I then tried ftp externally from Dos and that worked also. So I'm confused now. For 2 days the Lacie has been accepting connections from internal sources, but not external ones. I would have thought that it should not be able to tell the difference.
Ian
I just tried the telnet command from an external source and it worked. I then tried ftp externally from Dos and that worked also. So I'm confused now. For 2 days the Lacie has been accepting connections from internal sources, but not external ones. I would have thought that it should not be able to tell the difference.
Ian
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So it looks like I'm dealing with a hardware problem rather than a configuration problem. So I'll thank you for your efforts and award the points so I can close this thread.
Ian
Ian
from inside
from dos - if you ftp to the internal IP- then enter user / pass
from outside
from dos - if you ftp to the external IP- then enter user / pass
have you forwarded ports 20 and 21?
have you allowed the traffic in through the firewall as well as setting up the NAT translation?>