ftp with smb shares

[lintner]

Hello, I am wondering if there is a possibility to add my smb shares from my openelec machine to my ftp server (running 16.1 firmware), the reason for doing this is because the ftp-server in the NAS is very much superior than the one you can use in openelec, so that would be awesome if I could somehow do ...

cheers from sweden !

[fvdw]

Why don't you just copy over those smb shares to your nas. The firmware let you use shared folders as well via ftp as samba

[lintner]

I'm not sure what you mean by shared folders, did you mean to copy all of the data from my openelec machines ? because I can't do that, my external drives on my openelec machines are total 12 GB ...

[Jocko]

Hi lintner,

What you can try is to load this openelec smb shares.

1/ Create an 'openelec' share with FTP access (set the wanted user permissions)
2/ Create a folder for each openelec smb shares (I assume named elec_shrX)
You can set these folders from your laptop or directly with a shell command

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 mkdir -m 777 /direct-usb/openelec/elec_shrX

3/ Mount the remote openelec smb shares.

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mount -t cifs //openelechostname/elec_shrX /direct-usb/openelec/elec_shrX -o rw,iocharset=utf8,username='youreleclogin',password='yourpassword'

(where openelechostname is the hostname of your openelec or its IP address and youreleclogin is the login to get a samba access directly from the openelec)
Then elec_shrX content will be available (read or write access according the permission of the youreleclogin account.
(note you can only reduce user permissions with FTP permission and never grant them)

You can restore the openelec smb shares after a NAS rebooting by using the boot jobs menu.

After enabling it (read its help page) , create a file with these lines

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#!/bin/sh
if [ -f /direct-usb/openelec ]
then
 [ ! -d /direct-usb/openelec/elec_shrX ] && mkdir -m 777 /direct-usb/openelec/elec_shrX
 mount -t cifs //openelechostname/elec_shrX /direct-usb/openelec/elec_shrX -o rw,iocharset=utf8,username='youreleclogin',password='yourpassword'
fi


(repeat the last two lines for each openelec smb shares)