jffs access on ftp?

[Deleted member 27741]

Hello- On my N66U running john's fork, FTP is a lot faster for me (giving up on smb) so I would like to find a way to access /jffs over ftp. Does anyone know how I can accomplish this?

 

[ColinTaylor]

You can use WinSCP to access /jffs if that's of any help. Otherwise you'd have to start playing around with custom scripts.

 

[Deleted member 27741]

Definitely want to play around with custom scripts. I have a couple scripts on the router already (move syslog and some other simple things) so I'm not averse to that part but don't know a lot about adding options to the ftp setup!

 

[ColinTaylor]

I've been playing around with this for a while but I just don't understand where vsftpd is getting the users home directory from.

There's an entry for each user in /etc/passwd but that has a null entry where the home directory would normally be. I've tried putting a value in there (i.e. /jffs) but vsftpd just ignores it.

 

[Deleted member 27741]

To give proper credit I got this solution from-
http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/27/allowing-ftp-access-to-files-outside-the-home-directory-chroot/

Pretty much make a directory and then link it with the mount command as specified by mister Ducea- nice and easy. I will try putting the command in the postmount script to make it permanent! It works in the postmount script, it is nice to have the /jffs directory accessible through ftp.

So first make the directory to bind to-
mkdir /tmp/mnt/YOURUSB/somename

Then put this command in postmount script-
mount --bind /jffs/ /tmp/mnt/YOURUSB/somename