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Title: FTP server - access to more than 1 directory
Post by: kalimucho on November 19, 2008, 08:53:19 AM

Hi all,

I've bought a DNS-323 few days ago and I'm quite surprised because I do not find how to allow a FTP user to access more than one directory/share.

Let me explain :
on Volume_1, I've got 3 directories : dir_a, dir_b and dir_c. How to allow a user to connect to dir_a and dir_b but not dir_c ?
On my previous FTP server (filezilla server) it was possible to add an alias for a directory into user's home directory (for my example, user connects to /Volume_1/dir_a/ as home directory and have a virtual link to /Volume_1/dir_b/ into its home dir...).

Could someone tell me how to do the same on DNS-323 ?

Thanks.

Kali

Title: Re: FTP server - access to more than 1 directory
Post by: jrbilodeau on November 19, 2008, 03:26:16 PM

pretty sure its not possible

Title: Re: FTP server - access to more than 1 directory
Post by: MountainMan on November 20, 2008, 01:52:38 AM

Yeah, I hit up against the same problem.  I wanted to give a single user read/write access to one directory tree but only read access to another directory tree.

I ended up having to create two separate user logins for them, which is a really lame workaround.

Some solution to this should be put on the wish list for 1.07.

Title: Re: FTP server - access to more than 1 directory
Post by: kalimucho on November 20, 2008, 03:36:34 AM

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Some solution to this should be put on the wish list for 1.07.

Who can decide that ?

What is the ftp server ? I've heard it's pure-ftpd, but is this software able to deal with such feature ?

Title: Re: FTP server - access to more than 1 directory
Post by: ttmcmurry on November 21, 2008, 02:01:35 PM

The ftp services on the 323 are very basic even when compared to Microsoft FTP (In Windows Servers).  There are several features I consider standard that are missing from the 323.  But I have to take it with a grain of salt.  D-Link has said time and time again the DNS-323 is a consumer device;

BTW, I love FileZilla Server.

Title: Re: FTP server - access to more than 1 directory
Post by: kalimucho on November 23, 2008, 02:29:09 AM

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D-Link has said time and time again the DNS-323 is a consumer device;

That's what I am, but such feature is very basic...

Title: Re: FTP server - access to more than 1 directory
Post by: wirbel on November 27, 2008, 01:27:13 PM

Possible already now, but not so easy.

You could access your device by ssh and do some "mount --bind" stuff.