Sudo serveradmin settings ftp:DocumentRoot = “/Shared Items/Krypted” Good stuff, so use serveradmin to manually set shares with spaces or other special characters in the names: If you have spaces in the name of a share that you configure from the Server app the thing will fail. Same thing, right? Let’s look at all the settings: Let’s look at the status of the service, first: Additionally, you can use the serveradmin command, where ftp is the name of the service.

We already discussed sharing -l to see a list of the available shares. Open a terminal window on the server and let’s look at the few options you have to configure FTP from the command line. And of course, type get followed by the name of a file to transfer it locally: Or pwd to see what directory you are in (relative to the root of the ftp share). Here, type ls to see a list of the directories contents. Then, assuming your get the following, you’re in:Ģ30 User robin logged in.Remote system type is UNIXUsing binary mode to transfer files. To test, type ftp followed by the address of the site (and I like to put the username followed by before the hostname, as follows:įtp prompted, provide a password. I like to use the ftp command line interface built into OS X. Then, set the permissions as appropriate on the share and hit the ON button for the FTP service. Once open, use the Share: drop-down list to select a share that already exists (output of sharing -l basically) and click on one of the shares or Custom to create a new share for FTP. To setup FTP, first open the Server app and then click on the FTP service. This directory can be any share that has previously been configured in the File Sharing service or a website configured in the Websites service. Instead of sharing out each directory the new incantation of the FTP service allows administrators to share a single directory out. MacOS Server 5.2 (for Sierra) sees no changes with the FTP Service from previous versions of OS X.

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