User Manual

In Keenetic devices with the ability to use USB drives, you can enable the built-in FTP server to provide remote access to USB drive files via FTP. Access to the server will be provided both from the local network and from the Internet.

You can install the 'FTP server' and 'Application-layer gateway (ALG) for FTP' components on the 'General System Settings' page in the 'KeeneticOS Update and Component Options' section by clicking on the 'Component options' button.

Then go to the 'Applications' page. Here you will see the 'Personal cloud' panel. Click on the section heading.

The 'Personal Cloud' window contains basic server settings and user management functions.

Enable the 'Allow access from the Internet' option if you want to access the FTP server from the external interface.

In the 'FTP port' field of the 'FTP Settings' section, there is a port number for the built-in FTP server. By default, the server uses the standard TCP port number 21. If necessary, you can change the port number (e.g. use 2121).

In the 'Users' section, there is an option 'Anonymous access'. If you enable this option, a connection to the FTP server will be available for all users without authentication. We recommend you not to use anonymous access but rather to set up permissions to the FTP server with authentication (in this case, a user will have to enter a username and password when connecting to the FTP server).

Check the accounts that will be permitted to access the FTP server. Here you can add new accounts by clicking the 'Add user' button and specifying the account login and password.

By default, each user has access to all folders on the USB drive, but you can change this setting by clicking on the 'Folder' field and specifying a folder on the drive. For example, you can define a personal folder on the disc for each account. You can configure user read/write access or read-only access depending on the task. You can do it by the manual Folder permissions control on a USB drive.

Now return to the 'Application' page. The FTP server is disabled by default. To turn it on, set the switch to Enabled.

Now, using an account with access to the FTP server ('admin' is used in this example), you can access files on a disk connected to the Keenetic's USB port from the Internet. You can use any FTP client (FileZilla, SmartFTP Client, WinSCP, etc.) or file manager (Total Commander, Far Manager, Midnight Commander, etc.) to access the FTP server.

Here is an example of connecting to an FTP server from the WinSCP client:

If you have changed the port number on the FTP server (i.e. it is different from 21, e.g. 2121), you should specify it in the corresponding field.