Topic: External access to an I-Bay.

[Bill Wendel]

I have an E-smith box on my home network. The IP I have is a public IP. I would like to allow friends to be able to log-in to their own I-Bay and leave web content for their own web pages or to link to for other reasons. Is there any way to force I-Bay write access for people FTPing in from an external address?

[Peter Gandert]

Hello

The problem is for write-access, that your friend must have a valid user-account on your machine. The ebay-account is not enough, because with this account you have only read-access.

example:
Normal eBay-Configuration
eBayname :MyEbay
user:MyEbay
password:MyPassword

the ebay should be assigned to a group MyGroup and must have public (internet) access with passwort.

For your friend you must create a regular user-account:
user :MyFriend
passwort :MyFriendPwd
group :MyGroup

Now your friend can parametrize his ftp-client with the data above and can write his files into the ebay.

Much luck and fun
Peter Gandert / IDAT-Consulting
www.gandert-edv.de

[Bill Wendel]

So there is external write-access to an I-Bay? I was under the impression from the documentation that there was NO write-access from outside the internal network. I'll give it a try tonight after work tho. It will make a lot of people happy if I can give them webspace. Hope they don't mind my DSL limitations.

[Bill Wendel]

Sorry guy, doesn't work. Mainly I need to know where I should go to make a change which will allow me gto over-ride the I-Bay write access. I want them to be able to log in and leave their own web content.

[Mike]

I think Peter had it correct.  First go in an create a group, say 'developer'.  Then go into 'user accounts' and give each of your friends an account and make them part of developer group.  Then create your ibay, make the group 'developer', make ftp 'write=group, read=(which ever choice is applicable)', and public access should be 'Entire Internet (password required)'.  Now, by using ftp, anyone in the 'developer' group has access to put files in your ibay.  I do this from internal network and external to the network.  I hope this was helpful.

Good luck,
Mike

[David]

I have the same problem like Bill, I don't understand the relationship between user account and ibay account.

Like I created an user account:
Account Name: tester
Account Pwd:   testerpwd
Group Name:  testergroup
So, I can use this account ftp to the server externally, like ftp://tester:testerpwd@ftp.xxxxxx.com,  and I get the permission to read and write. This part works fine.

But, After I created an ibay account:
Account name: testerftp
Account Pwd:   testerftppwd
Group:  testergroup
User Access: Write=group, Read=Everyone(or Group)
Public Access: Entire Internet(password required)

Then I use ftp://testerftp:testerftppws@ftp.xxxxxx.com to login the server externally. I only get the permission to read and down the file, write was denied.
Can anyone tell me how to gain the right of writing permission to that testerftp ibay?

Thank you
-David