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Accessing the Storage System through FTP
and SSH

FTP

If you enabled the storage system to act as an FTP server, all Windows or Mac OS X users can use a Web
browser to access the public folder and their personal folders. For information about enabling the storage
system to act as an FTP server, see
Note: Even if you changed the access rights to the public folder (for example, to prevent a particular
user from accessing it altogether or to limit a user to read-only access), all existing users have
full read/write access to the public folder when accessing it via FTP.
To access the storage system using FTP:
1. At any Windows or Mac OS X computer, open a Web browser, enter the following in the address bar,
and press Enter:
ftp://user_name@storage_system
where user_name is the user name as defined on the storage system and storage_system is the name
or IP address of the storage system (for example, ftp://user1@storage or ftp://user1@192.168.0.101).
Note: You can use the storage system name only if that name is registered with a DNS server on
your network.
You can use guest as the user name, but you will be able to access only the public folder.
2. If prompted, enter your user name and password for accessing shared folders, and then click OK.
If you used the guest user name, the password is also guest.
3. Double-click any of the displayed folders or files to open them.
You have full read/write access to all the folders and files in both the public folder and your personal
folder.
Even if you browse to other websites, you remain logged in until you close the browser window. (That
is, you can return to the FTP site using the Back button in your browser window.)
Note: FTP can not transfer files larger than 2 GB.

SSH

SSH provides an extra layer of secure communication between the storage system and its administrator. It
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