Accessing the home directory with FTP

You can use FTP to access the home directory of your storage system.

Steps

1. Enable FTP access on the storage system by entering the following command: options ftpd.enable on
2. Set the default home directory.

   Example

   options ftpd.dir.override /vol/vol0/home

   Note: The path to the home directory must match what is specified in either the /etc/cifs_homedir.cfg or the /etc/passwd file. Which one is used depends on the ftpd.auth_style setting.

3. Connect to the storage system from a client, using FTP.
4. Use the FTP get command to copy files from the storage system to your client so you can edit them.
5. Use the FTP put command to copy the edited files from your client to the storage system.
6. Turn off FTP access on the storage system:options ftpd.enable off