Imagine exposing your SSH port to the Internet and then someone comes across your MyBook Live, realises the “root” user’s password is still set to the default of “welc0me” and then that person, somewhere on the planet, has 100% access to YOUR MyBook Live. I don’t think you would like to happen.
So, it is uber important not to expose the MyBook Live’s port 22 to the Internet unless a very secure password is assigned to the “root” user.
To be honest, even I don’t have SSH exposed to the Internet on my own MyBook Live.
Thanks Mryon as I had started to go down the SSH track, yet ended up “uninstalling” it, might you i haven’t yet gone back into my MBL and “disabled” SSH. So must do this tonight when i get home
I’m newbie here who try to setup the FTP for my MBL.
I had registered Dynamic DNS Service with www.no-ip.com, i realised that i can download and install the Dynamic DNS Update Client so that the host name i created is always associated with my router external IP.
I’m just wondering, can I access to MBL through SSH, and install the Dynamic DNS Update Client inside the MBL and let the client run inside MBL and update the IP address?
I have the Dynamic DNS Update Client for Linux, anyone can teach me how to install the client in Linux environment (MBL had the Linux with it if i’m not mistaken?)? I’m not really familiar with Linux…
Erm… My advise is not to disable SSH but you can change the password from “welc0me” to whatever else that is more secue using the passwd command on the Linux command line, but don’t disable SSH.
Try not forget the password. If you do then the reset button resets the root password back to “welc0me” so you won’t get locked-out because of a forgotten root password.
snoozee wrote:
Thanks Mryon as I had started to go down the SSH track, yet ended up “uninstalling” it, might you i haven’t yet gone back into my MBL and “disabled” SSH. So must do this tonight when i get home
You you can access the MyBook Live from the Internet by SFTP and secure Telnet. Enable forwarding of port 22 from the Internet to your MyBook Live but PLEASE remember to change the root user password from “welc0me” to something that you can easily remember is impossible to guess by dictionary attacks or guesses.
If you don’t change the root user password then your MyBook Live WILL be owned by some hacker/crook/etc…
I don’t know how to install a DynDNS client on the MyBook Live. Well, I do but I don’t want to disturb any configuration files or software libraries. By this I mean installing a DynDNS client could break everything else, especially the Web UI.
Anyone reading this is more knowledgeable to install ay Dynamic DNS update client in a way that won’t disturb or break anything within the MyBook Live?
Anson wrote:
Dear all,
I’m newbie here who try to setup the FTP for my MBL.
I had registered Dynamic DNS Service with www.no-ip.com, i realised that i can download and install the Dynamic DNS Update Client so that the host name i created is always associated with my router external IP.
I’m just wondering, can I access to MBL through SSH, and install the Dynamic DNS Update Client inside the MBL and let the client run inside MBL and update the IP address?
I have the Dynamic DNS Update Client for Linux, anyone can teach me how to install the client in Linux environment (MBL had the Linux with it if i’m not mistaken?)? I’m not really familiar with Linux…
Two days ago I am fighting (and reading) with it to make FTP server accessible from Internet … but I do not obtain it.
Only I want to gain access to some private folder. That’s why I make a change in vsftpd.conf (thank you very much Myron!!! :)) to hide and deny access to the public folders (deny_file=Public and hide_file=Public).
The situation is the following one:
I have a fixed IP
In the DSL Router (D-link 2740B) I have opened a port and it is forwarding to my MBL
(external port 4321 to internal port 21 to MBL_Internal_IP).
My FTP client (CuteFTP), configured in PASV mode, can log in in MBL but it does not obtain the directory file and the connection is closed.
This is the line log in CuteFTP:
STATUS> Getting listing “XXXXX”…
STATUS> Connecting to ftp server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:4321 (ip = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)…
STATUS> Socket connected. Waiting for welcome message…
220 “Welcome”
STATUS> Connected. Authenticating…
COMMAND> USER XXXXX
331 Please specify the password.
COMMAND> PASS *****
230 Login successful.
STATUS> Login successful.
COMMAND> PWD
257 “/”
STATUS> Home directory: /
COMMAND> FEAT
211-Features:
EPRT
EPSV
MDTM
PASV
REST STREAM
SIZE
TVFS
UTF8
211 End
STATUS> This site supports features.
STATUS> This site supports SIZE.
STATUS> This site can resume broken downloads.
COMMAND> TYPE A
200 Switching to ASCII mode.
COMMAND> REST 0
350 Restart position accepted (0).
COMMAND> CWD /Folder
250 Directory successfully changed.
COMMAND> PWD
257 “/Folder”
COMMAND> PASV
227 Entering Passive Mode (xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,19,193).
COMMAND> LIST
STATUS> Connecting ftp data socket xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5057…
ERROR> Control connection closed.
The question is: is it necessary to make some another change in in this file or in the router?
The FTP server is working without problems at my internal network. Also I have set in my Personal Computer another FTP server (WS_FTP Server with different open port in the router) and also working from Internet.
Some idea on this problem. I appreciate any suggestion. Thank you in advance and excuses for my bad English.
Don’t think it’s the MBL that’s at fault. VSFTPD is used by a number of big companies for public facing FTP servers.
I would suspect you router. Have yuou updated the firmware of your router? If you can try another make and model of router. It could even be a issue with the company that is providing Internet access services.
Another thing to try is on your computer, lower the MTU to 1400.
Without touching the TCP configuration, try pinging your router from the Internet and use ping’s -f option to prevent packet fragmentation. Can you ping the router with the No DF set? If you can’t then lower the MTU and try again.