LaCie Ethernet Disk RAID
(Firmware version 1.4)
User Manual
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Working with Shared Folders
6.2. Accessing Shared Folders Using FTP
If you enabled the Ethernet Disk RAID to act as an
FTP server (as described in section
5.7.5. Network
), all
Windows and Mac OS X users can use a Web browser
to access the public folder. They can also access their
personal folder that was created automatically when
their user name was added by logging in with their user
name and password (as described in section
5.4.1. Add-
ing Users
). Anonymous FTP is not supported. They can
use “guest” as the user name and password, but they will
only be able to access the public folder.
TeChNICAl NOTe:
Even if you changed the
access rights to the public folder (for example, to
prevent a particular user from accessing it alto-
gether or to limit a user to read-only access), all
existing users have full read/write access to the
public folder when accessing it via FTP.
To access shared folders using FTP:
At any Windows or Mac OS X computer, open a
Web browser, enter the following in the address bar,
and press
Enter
:
ftp://user_name@storage_system
where user_name is the user name as defined on
the Ethernet Disk RAID and storage_system
is the name or IP address of the Ethernet Disk
RAID (for example, ftp://user1@storage or ftp://
[email protected]).
You can use guest as the user name, but you will be
able to access only the public folder.
If prompted, enter your user name and password
for accessing shared folders, and then click
OK
.
If you used the guest user name, the password is also
guest.
Double-click any of the displayed folders or files to
open them.
You have full read/write access to all the folders and
files in both the public folder and your personal fold-
er, and you can create new ones.
Even if you browse to other websites, you remain
logged in until you close the browser window. (That
is, you can return to the FTP site using the
Back
button in your browser window.)
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TeChNICAl NOTe:
You can use the system
name only if your computer is in the same sub-
net as the Ethernet Disk RAID, if you added the
Ethernet Disk RAID’s IP address and name to
your local hosts file, or if you manually registered
the name with a DNS server in your network.
TeChNICAl NOTe:
Files copied to or from
the Ethernet Disk RAID using FTP can be no
larger than 2 GB.
