No FTP access to AC68U

[Blacktop]

Hello
I have AC66U-B1 with AC68U firmware. Everything's fine except:
1. FTP access to router. There is not FTP settings in router incl. on\off. So no FTP access.

2. When I change some settings or restart router I can not enter by telnet\ssh for some time. About 10 minutes I see in logs "bla-bla-bla nonexistent user. Then I get access. Why?

 

[ColinTaylor]

The ftp settings are under USB Application > Servers Center > FTP Share. You do have a USB drive plugged in don't you?

 

[Blacktop]

You do have a USB drive plugged in don't you?

Yes, I do and have these settings. I thought that there are some "special" FTP settings in Administration -> System

 

[ColinTaylor]

The only "special" setting I can think of is AiCloud's Cloud Disk which IIRC enables ftp access from the WAN.

 

[Mr Tvardovsky]

You can also turn your FTP on or off through the Asus Router app. For me this is the most handy option if I need to unmount the drive just for a while, without changing other settings.

Won’t help with the #2 question :-(

 

[JonEngland]

there's an entware package for ftp if that helps, e.g

# opkg install openssh-sftp-server

Entware:

Entware

Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase) - RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

github.com

 

[ColinTaylor]

there's an entware package for ftp if that helps, e.g

# opkg install openssh-sftp-server

That is actually SFTP which is a completely different protocol to FTP, and should also not be confused with FTPS (which is an extension to FTP).