What is structure of ftp path?

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What is structure of ftp path?

Here wer are at 10.7.3 server and I am still trouble shooting trying to get our Xerox Workcenter 7328 to network scan to a shared folder on a connected drive to our mac mini server. I can't believe how much of a headeache Lion server has caused with connected devices over SMB and ftp but none-the-less here's my question:

What should the ftp address look like to connect to a shared volume on a CONNECTED drive to our mini server? I cannot seem to get the path correct to connect to the folder directly.The problem I am having is

Here's our setup: ftp://server IP/Volumes/Share1/Shared Items/LPI Sharepoint/XeroxWorkcenter_Scans

The problem seems to be that I can't target the volume correctly. If I get this to work in OS X connect to server, my hope is that I can then put that path in my Xerox's control panel settings and it would work with ftp (I am using Lion tweaks which only works half of the time)

The xerox just wants the IP address, document path (which should really be a folder path), and login credentials.

The appropriate folder is already shared as guest user so there's no problem getting to it

Thanks.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Mar 8, 2012 9:30 AM

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Answer 1

Camelot

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Mar 8, 2012 10:28 AM in response to Tangier Clarke1

If you think about what you're saying here:

Here's our setup: ftp://server IP/Volumes/Share1/Shared Items/LPI Sharepoint/XeroxWorkcenter_Scans

you're expecting your FTP server to have full, unfettered access to the entire system. You never want that. Seriously. Any FTP user could simply strip off the last parts of that part and access any other directory on the server.

Instead, the FTP server uses a concept of masking actual directories on disk such that when a user logs in they see that directory as / and cannot get to any higher directory.

For example, you could define /Volumes/Share1/Shared Items/LPI Sharepoint/ as the 'ftproot' directory in FTP. Now when a user logs in, that's the directory they see and, in this case, the files would be uploaded to the XeroxWorkcenter_Scans subdirectory:

ftp://server.ip/XeroxWorkcenter_Scans/

In other words, the full path is masked by the FTP server and the client doesn't know (or need to know) about it.

The specifics of how you set this up can vary, though. It's possible to set different root directories per user (e.g. have each user's ftproot is their own home directory), or have different paths map to different locations.

The upshot is there are many ways of setting this up. In no case, though, would the full path to the directory be what you want.

If you're only using the FTP server for the Xerox WorkCenter then I'd suggest setting that directory as the FTP Root and moving on.

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Answer 2

Mar 8, 2012 10:49 AM in response to Camelot

Using Lion Tweaks on our Lion server and inputting the entire folder path (which as of writing this now allows the network scanning to work) is the only way i have it set up right now.

How would i go about making the scan-to folder the root directory? Right now, the server IP and "/Volumes/Share1/Shared Items/LPI Sharepoint/XeroxWorkcenter_Scans" document path is working, but I am concerned about the security you mentioned.

SMB just isn't working at all; not even with SMBUP application.

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