To be cleaer, this is something you’ll do on the router - on the link you gave, it is mentioned as “Setting up DHCP Reservation on the router”. I understand that you (or anyone else) would pay for getting a static WAN IP but I do hope you have assigned a static LAN IP on your router for the EX2 (which technically is reserving a DHCP IP for your EX2 but the idea isthe same - your EX2 gets a static LAN IP…and note, we are talking of LAN IPs, not WAN IPs). Can’t say with certainty without seeing screenshots of your ftp configs from your dashboard.īut even if I assume that you have setup ftp correctly, I noticed you talked about following the steps in that linksys document. I suspect the issue may lie with something in your ftp configuration…but it is only a suspicion. I’D REALLY LIKE TO GET THE FTP PART CORRECT. ANY MORE IDEAS? I SETUP THE SSH WITH A SPECIFIC USERNAME AND ALL STEPS RELATED. I HAD TO AT SOME POINT CREATE A SSH KEY TO PUT INTO PHOTOSYNC. I ACTUALLY DID TRY SETTING UP AS SFTP ALSO. AT SOME POINT I EVEN TRIED PORT FORWARDING PORT 21 ON MY ROUTER (WHICH I DIDN’T REALLY WANT TO DO). I’VE ALSO TRIED HTTP://IP-OF-NAS, JUST THE IP OF THE NAS, NAS NAME, & FOR THE SERVER NAME WHEN TRYING TO CONNECT FROM PHOTOSYNC. I NOT ONLY SETUP FTP, BUT ALSO GAVE FTP ACCESS TO THE SHARES AS ADVISED.
I CHECKED OUT THE MANUAL AND IT WALKS ME THROUGH WHAT I HAVE ALREADY TRIED SEVERAL TIMES OVER. I WANT TO DO ALL OF THIS WITHIN MY NETWORK. Best to stick with good old FTP…or with FTPS, if security is a concern during syncing. But I would recommend against using SFTP for your sync purposes because then your files are going to be saved as a root user which will affect the location and permission on the files on EX2, that you may not be able to access using your regular EX2 username. And for SFTP to work, you need to enable SSH access first and setup a pasword (which will become your SFTP password). You can find out what the username is for SFTP connection by looking in the EX2 manual for SSH username or in the dashboard right next to the settings to enable SSH access. But best to get to that in steps…first get it to work from within the same network, before attempting it from outside the network, as you’ll have to set up port forwardings on your router, etc.Īlso, if you were to try SFTP (not FTPS), the login username is different than your normal EX2 login username (it is the preset ssh root access username). If you wish to do this sync from outside the network (say for example, from outside your home if the EX2 is kept at your home), then you need to setup port forwarding on your router. And this is assuming you are doing this syncing while in the same network as the EX2. You can refer to the EX2’s manual to see what the right ftp settings are for the server name. Their firmwares are very different and settings will differ too, especially the server name part. Without going into all the details of what you have tried and failed, I noticed one very obvious thing. That is, the link you provided at the end for ftp settings is a link to a settings for a My Cloud device…which I hope you know is NOT the same as a My Cloud EX2.
Any ideas? I even tried single port forwarding for port 21 and assigned the IP of the NAS and then did the FTP setup on the NAS along with turning the FTP on for individual shares. I’d be open to using another app if it could also auto choose the photos that have not already been uploaded. I’ve followed the following directions and have tried all kinds of other things and nothing has worked yet.
This was easy of course when I had everything setup to sync to Google+ photos. With the WD native app I’d have to first check on the NAS what was the last photo I uploaded and then individually choose each photo out of the photos I have on my phone. And PhotoSync knows what photos you haven’t uploaded and specifically highlights them for you so all you have to do is hit the sync button. Yes, the NAS has a native app but I take a lot of photos on my phone. I have tried FTP, SFTP, & WebDAV and I have not been able to use PhotoSync to sync my photos to my NAS. *Additionally, I couldn’t get this to work before the TWC Arris router modem was hooked up trying everything I tried after the Arris was put into play. Current Setup: iPhone 6, PhotoSync App, Macbook, WD EX2 M圜loud NAS, LinkSys Router connected to Arris TWC Router Modem