Hi total newbie here so please take it easy, im moving from my qnap nas to my new built unraid server (have 9 days left before i buy) and really love it so far, i have only 1 problem my ip camera is setup to record to an FTP server which was easy enough to setup on my nas but for the life of me cant seem to work out on my unraid, i have enabled it and entered user and went to ip camera and entered detailed there ( ip, username and password ). But cant seem to find folder on server to check recordings, can anyone help or point me in the right direction. Many thanks 

Edited April 30, 20188 yr by coblck

Are you trying to use the built-in FTP Server in unRAID? I think most people disable that one and install another from Community Applications.

 

Have you tried just accessing the FTP Server with a standard FTP Client to get an idea of whether and how it works?

 

I am not familiar with what you are trying to do so I would need more details to give any further advice.

Yeah built in ftp server,  can you recommend any ftp server from the community 

 

My camera records any video if motion is detected and send footage to ftp server to store it

 

3 minutes ago, coblck said:

My camera records any video if motion is detected and send footage to ftp server to store it

 

 

In general an FTP server is going to want some things from whatever is trying to use it, including where to save or read data. Your camera application must tell it where to save the footage.

 

Isn't your camera application capable of browsing the FTP server to select where to save?

This is what i get in my log

 

Apr 30 18:09:28 Unraid-Server vsftpd[31721]: connect from 192.168.0.21 (192.168.0.21)
Apr 30 18:09:28 Unraid-Server vsftpd[31721]: [admin] OK LOGIN: Client "192.168.0.21"
Apr 30 18:09:28 Unraid-Server vsftpd[31724]: connect from 192.168.0.21 (192.168.0.21)
Apr 30 18:09:28 Unraid-Server vsftpd[31724]: [admin] OK LOGIN: Client "192.168.0.21"
Apr 30 18:09:29 Unraid-Server vsftpd[31746]: connect from 192.168.0.21 (192.168.0.21)
Apr 30 18:09:29 Unraid-Server vsftpd[31746]: [admin] OK LOGIN: Client "192.168.0.21"
Apr 30 18:09:29 Unraid-Server vsftpd[31749]: connect from 192.168.0.21 (192.168.0.21)
Apr 30 18:09:29 Unraid-Server vsftpd[31749]: [admin] OK LOGIN: Client "192.168.0.21"
Apr 30 18:09:30 Unraid-Server vsftpd[31751]: [admin] FAIL MKDIR: Client "192.168.0.21", "/mnt/Public"
Apr 30 18:09:36 Unraid-Server vsftpd[31886]: connect from 192.168.0.21 (192.168.0.21)
Apr 30 18:09:36 Unraid-Server vsftpd[31886]: [admin] OK LOGIN: Client "192.168.0.21"
Apr 30 18:09:37 Unraid-Server vsftpd[31907]: connect from 192.168.0.21 (192.168.0.21)
Apr 30 18:09:37 Unraid-Server vsftpd[31907]: [admin] OK LOGIN: Client "192.168.0.21"

 

Looks like it cant mount directory 

Here is setting for ip camera

I just tried out the builtin FTP server and it appears to give you access to the whole /mnt folder in unRAID, which has the user shares in /mnt/user, but also the individual disks in /mnt/disk1, etc. That is why I suggested browsing the FTP server from your application.

 

I think you are going to have to tell your application to use "user/Public" if you want to get to the user share named Public.

Thanks for the help, the camera wont let me search unfortunately, also if i try an enter user/Public it gives error saying no symbols are not allowed in path, on my nas i could tell the nas what folder to use for ftp server is that not possible for unraid 

Edited April 30, 20188 yr by coblck

27 minutes ago, coblck said:

what folder to use for ftp server is that not possible for unraid 

Probably with one of the other ftp servers from Community Applications I mentioned.  I don't use any but you can get to the support thread for any of them from Community Applications and see if one would suit you.

Ok thanks again

 

On 4/30/2018 at 11:46 AM, trurl said:

Are you trying to use the built-in FTP Server in unRAID? I think most people disable that one and install another from Community Applications.

Can you (or anyone else here) tell me what community FTP application you use, please?

Probably ProFTP

On 12/14/2018 at 3:48 AM, Squid said:

Probably ProFTP

 

Bump

 

Hiya. Dredging up old posts - not my favourite thing to do - but this thread seems spot on. RE ProFTP - is that the same as ProFTPd? I'm looking for the same reason as the OP, and ProFTPd is the only one that isn't a Docker from my search.

 

 

yes

I'm in exactly the same boat.  My Sony A7VR camera can only connect via FTP or SFTP (bizarre for 2025) but it is what it is.  I don't see ProFTP or ProFTPd as even listed for UnRaid docker apps?