[us1929]

Well I declear failbus wins. Ive had no luck at all getting FTP access working, I give up 🙁

Dont suppose anyone else had any success ?

[us1929]

Ive been looking at the source code for WiiMC and have discovered that the FTP Client support is using:

/****************************************************************************
* TinyFTP
* Nintendo Wii/GameCube FTP implementation
*
* FTP devoptab
* Implemented by hax
****************************************************************************/

So while researching TinFTP and FTP devoptab Ive found that the developer “hax”
came up with this originaly for MPlayerCE. I’ve downloaded MPlayerCE V.0.76 and
_r572 beta build. I’ll have a play with these tomorrow. Why am I bothering with
those you may ask, Well I thought if either of those work with the FTP Client
connections then it would be very easy to bug check / find the difference between
a working implementation of this part of code with the WiiMC development version.

So having found the above information, has anyone tried using the FTP Client built
into MPlayerCE and if so, does it work for you with no problems ? If not get onto it
guys and try it out and report back with feedback if you have time. Its almost bed
time for me here in OZ so I will also be installing all the development tools for WiiMC
tomorrow and will try and help resolve this problem in WiiMC.

Looking forward to your feedback and comments.

[us1929]

@bicet wrote:

Yes I’m connecting via wifi 🙂

And I’m having the same “problem”, saving config when a network connection doesn’t work 🙂

This deffinetly makes me thinks that there is some sort of cache problem with using FTP access, because
when I watch my FTP Server activity window I can see the connection getting established and the WiiMC
ftp client is hanging trying to list any files and folders.

Maybe Tantric can shed some light on how the WiiMC FTP Client works ?
Is there a code base that its using that we could look into to try and help resolve this problem ?

[us1929]

@nomoreheroes wrote:

Hey, thought I’d add to conversation. I’ve tried connecting active and passive with the new port option, now it seems I’m connecting but I keep getting “Error Opening ftp1:/” before it loads the directory.

Ug welcome to my world lol. I get the same problem, in addition after getting that error if I go back into
the settings and try changing the FTP client details, when clicking back, getting back out to the WiiMC
start page so to speak I then get another error that says it cant write/save to the settings config.

So this was making me wonder if perhaps there is a cache writting issue with the FTP client built into WiiMC ?
I dont know why the writting/save update error is happening to the settings config. Has anyone else seen this ?

AND

@bicet wrote:

Here’s what I’ve done:

• add two FTP shares…(same server,same username,same password,same folder)
• press home
• reload wiimc
• Connect to the first share (it will probably give an error)
• Connect to the second share (90% of times it works,it should display directory’s content)

I’m using pureftpd,with active connection mode only…

Hope it helps…This should be a bug in WiiMC,cause I can connect to my shares without problem with a ftp client…

Thats interesting, that makes me think that perhaps there is a issue with the connection staying open/alive.
Are you using WiFi wireless to connect ? I’ll try and replicate what your also doing to see what happens for me.
Thanks for your input and feedback, I’ll be back to let you all know what success I have while continuing to test.

Cheers 😎

[us1929]

@skoopman wrote:

Just overwrite the boot.dol with the old 1.0 version.

Thanks for letting me know what to do, I appreciate your help. Cheers

@Tantric wrote:

Something wrong with 1.0.1?

No I dont think so, I just want to try all my tests trying to get the FTP working
with both build, Im not sure if it will make any difference or not, I just thought
I would try everything possible as there doesnt seem to be anyone having much
luck with the FTP access and there is very little mention of any working solutions.

I was thinking I would try all my testing with both versions because I noticed that
the Active/PASV mode selection is now locked in Ver.1.0.1 I know its been mentioned
that the PASV mode isnt working, I just dont know what else has changed in regards
to the FTP ability between versions as there isnt much mentioned in the change log.

Also I dont know about anyone else, but I have had no luck changing the port number
from 21 to anything else in Ver.1.0.1 it seems that the FTP support is still only working
with port 21. If anyone else has tried changing the port number and had success please
let us know ?

Cheers 😎

[us1929]

Hi res2216firestar,

Thanks for your reply. Ive got all the right port forwarding set in my router.
I disabled PSV mode in my FTP Server, using direct connect only and port 21
I had a win, it actualy connected, listed the files, I was able to stream a xvid
across the wireless connection via FTP perfectly, I was amazed and happy.

But now another problem, it only did it once, when I exited from the FTP share
I got an error on the screen, saying that the settings config could not be written
too. So I restarted the Wii and started WiiMC again but now it wont connect again.

So Im going to test out a couple of other FTP Servers and will report back with any
progress and findings, Im determin to get this working as I dont want to use SMB
shares. I’ll be sure to let you know how I get on and if I have any further success.

Cheers 😎

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