How to hook up a remote ftp sever in ZTE F660 router?

[Amithnal]

Hi,

I need bit of help configuring my router. I have being trying to hook up a nas to my fibre(ZTE F660). I connected a hard drive and made my ip public. But still my port forwarding doesn't work. Please help me out.

[NelizMastr]

What are you trying to do?

 

Did you literally add a USB HDD to a router? Did you enable file sharing services and a share to connect to?

 

What is port 444 supposed to do? That's a non-standard port and will not do anything unless it's specifically pointing to a service running on your network

that is configured to use that port.

 

Kind reminder, don't forward port 445 for SMB over the internet. Also don't use FTP without any encryption or an external IP whitelist. Ideally, use a VPN to connect to internal resources.

[Amithnal]

50 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

What are you trying to do?

 

Did you literally add a USB HDD to a router? Did you enable file sharing services and a share to connect to?

 

What is port 444 supposed to do? That's a non-standard port and will not do anything unless it's specifically pointing to a service running on your network

that is configured to use that port.

 

Kind reminder, don't forward port 445 for SMB over the internet. Also don't use FTP without any encryption or an external IP whitelist. Ideally, use a VPN to connect to internal resources.

I am trying to access the hdd on an another network, the only option is to port forward to another port and access it through that right.

[Needfuldoer]

4 minutes ago, Amithnal said:

am trying to access the hdd on an another network

By what protocol?

 

Exposing FTP or SMB to the wide open Internet is just begging for trouble. If you don't intend on hosting files for the entire world, you want to access it over a VPN connection like Wireguard.

[Kilrah]

Is the HDD connected to the router itself, and the FTP server running on it? If so you don't need port mapping, but probably need to enable WAN access in FTP settings.

 

[NelizMastr]

1 hour ago, Amithnal said:

I am trying to access the hdd on an another network, the only option is to port forward to another port and access it through that right.

Yes and no. FTP and SMB are both unsafe to use across the internet without a proper firewall and IP whitelisting. For a home user, a VPN is preferred.