Thanks to the EOL of the pre-OS5 devices, I just set up a new EX 2 Ultra on my home network. I am now faced with the task of trying to move 5.5 TB from one to the other without using a wireless Mac as the middle man, because that will take days.
My thinking was to enable FTP on the EX 4, then ssh into the EX 2 Ultra and just do a nice big get command. I tried to set up an FTP server on the EX 4 using the documentation provided here: My Cloud: Configure FTP Server Access
I followed all the steps exactly, and also checked both the port forwards for ftp. My thinking was to try to make the connection from my Mac as a test before trying to remote in to the EX 2 Ultra and do it there. My command to connect:
sftp admin@<ip_address>
I was met with the following response:
ssh: connect to host <ip_address> port 22: Connection refused
This is confusing to me because I thought ftp was port 21. So I tried using the -P flag to specify port 21. I got no error, but I also got no output at all; had to ctrl-c to get back to a command prompt.
The logs on the device for FTP show only me enabling and disabling the server. There is also a line about FTP from a different IP (I assume this is the internal IP of my Mac) and the word “Logout”. I assume this means that forcing the connection port 21 with the -P flat succeeded and the ctrl-c that I used when it apparently froze was registered, but beyond that I’m stuck.
I have some basic *nix experience but I’m not close to a pro level admin. Any suggestion would be welcome. I’m by no means married to using the method I described above - it’s simply the first thing that occurred to me - but as both the WD devices have a wired connection to the network, and the Mac doesn’t, I would really prefer to avoid using it as a middle man if possible.
Thanks!
