Tigerman82
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I have Asus RT-N56U router with the current Padavan firmware installed. I was looking for a NAS storage solution and thought about using the USB ports of the router to connect a portable HDD as wireless backup/external storage solution. I tested this with a USB flash drive. However, through FTP, I couldn't get write permissions. Through Samba everything is working fine although the transfer speeds are moderate (using a USB2 flash drive and 802.11n connection in OS X, the average transfer speed of a 2gig file from mac to drive was about 5.5Mb/s).
Here's what I did. I enabled FTP server with "Access with account". I then went to the AiDisk wizard, selected "Admin Rights" with user name and password, created a name for the DDNS server (asuscomm) and finished. I then went to "FTP Share" settings and made sure "admin" had R/W rights. This didn't work (I accessed the USB drive via browser and various file managers, and didn't have write permissions). I then read something negative about the asuscomm DDNS service, so, in AiDisk wizard, I created an account with another DDNS service, NO-IP, with ddns.net ending. This did not solve the issue. I also tried to enable "Access FTP Server from Wan" from Firewall settings, but it did not help. Finally, I read somewhere that you shouldn't create folders via the Asus web interface. However, even if I created a folder with the drive attached to my Mac, I didn't get write permissions via FTP.
I have to questions:
1) How do I get the FTP Sharing to work so that I will have write permissions and can copy files to the drive via FTP?
2) Is the Asus File Sharing worth it or should I just buy a dedicated NAS storage or just do it the old fashioned way and attach an external drive to my Mac?
Here's what I did. I enabled FTP server with "Access with account". I then went to the AiDisk wizard, selected "Admin Rights" with user name and password, created a name for the DDNS server (asuscomm) and finished. I then went to "FTP Share" settings and made sure "admin" had R/W rights. This didn't work (I accessed the USB drive via browser and various file managers, and didn't have write permissions). I then read something negative about the asuscomm DDNS service, so, in AiDisk wizard, I created an account with another DDNS service, NO-IP, with ddns.net ending. This did not solve the issue. I also tried to enable "Access FTP Server from Wan" from Firewall settings, but it did not help. Finally, I read somewhere that you shouldn't create folders via the Asus web interface. However, even if I created a folder with the drive attached to my Mac, I didn't get write permissions via FTP.
I have to questions:
1) How do I get the FTP Sharing to work so that I will have write permissions and can copy files to the drive via FTP?
2) Is the Asus File Sharing worth it or should I just buy a dedicated NAS storage or just do it the old fashioned way and attach an external drive to my Mac?
