Hello,

 

I am using unRAID 6.7.2 and I'm just trying to use the built-in FTP server to save some files from a POE camera.  I see most people are suggesting other FTP plugins, but I really don't want anything complicated -- just want to point my POE security camera on my internal network to an FTP folder to save files.

 

I added a new user for unRAID FTP and I have been able to connect to my server and even browse the shares using Chrome and the new credential.

 

But I cannot get any of my security software (Reolink, TinyCam, etc) to recognize any folder on the server, even though the login is working fine.

 

I get the error "Failed to create FTP directories".

 

I suspect it is just a permissions issue.  Maybe it is able to read but not write....?

 

I tried the unRAID Tools/NewPermissions for all disks/shares....didn't seem to help.

 

I'm not even particular about which folder things go to, so if there is a default FTP folder that will work that would be fine as well.  I wasn't able to find anything on what the default FTP folder is, other than if I FTP from Chrome I seek my disk1, disk2, etc shares.  I am trying to use the FTP folder from my security software as "/disk1/reolink" (which already exists) but I have tried all kinds of folder options without any success.

 

I am not a Linux guy, so hopefully this is just something I can do from the unRAID UI.

 

Thanks in advance.

having the same issue with reolink camera. Did you managed to fix or find the problem?

I have multiple reolink cams. Zoom cam is working fine. But doorbell cam is not.

 

Found the issue:

if you go to /Tools/Syslog in UNRAID

you can find that some reolink cameras exits on first error. (for example folder creation error)

but my other camera keeps trying till the folder is created. ( tries to create folders in other paths, for example /mnt/mnt/... or /mnt/...)

Wrote reolink about this issue, hope they will fix it soon.

 

 

Edited January 6, 20233 yr by Juugis
found the issue

Thanks! I omitted the "mnt" from my remote directory setting and it worked for me 😁