I've just put Linux Mint 20 Ulyana XFCE Edition on as I tried Windows 10 and got angry with it.
Whilst it is working better than W10 so far I have something I'm struggling with. My IT skill level is probably about 2 or 3 out of 5 where 1 is a baby and 5 is Bill Gates.
I've got a USB stick in my router which I'm trying to use as a poor mans NAS, just for some central storage. I've got the settings below on my Tenda AC15 router.
I can see the files using Firefox typing the address given in the router screen.
But using Filezilla I can't access them at all.
What is wrong?
As an aside, I first tried doing this using samba which seems to be built in to Linux Mint, but despite trying all the recommendations I could find online about editing the smb.conf file to downgrade the protocol I couldn't get it to work. So now I'm trying FTP.
My android phone can access the files on the USB fine through VLC media player (most of the files are movies).
Whilst it is working better than W10 so far I have something I'm struggling with. My IT skill level is probably about 2 or 3 out of 5 where 1 is a baby and 5 is Bill Gates.
I've got a USB stick in my router which I'm trying to use as a poor mans NAS, just for some central storage. I've got the settings below on my Tenda AC15 router.
I can see the files using Firefox typing the address given in the router screen.
But using Filezilla I can't access them at all.
What is wrong?
As an aside, I first tried doing this using samba which seems to be built in to Linux Mint, but despite trying all the recommendations I could find online about editing the smb.conf file to downgrade the protocol I couldn't get it to work. So now I'm trying FTP.
My android phone can access the files on the USB fine through VLC media player (most of the files are movies).
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i think you're using one of the secure options in the encryption dropdown in filezilla's site manager. try the 'if available' one.
Mint (xfce 19, on one of my lightweights) has a superb forum to address these questions to help you out. Otherwise MX (also xfce) might be another good flavour with a comparable superb forum to address... &c
Thanks jebivetar, that was it. I was using the quickconnect to connect, but when I went in to the site manager to set it up that way I saw the security settings. Choosing no encryption fixed it.