FTP from Windows 10 to Android TV box

I installed a FTP app on the TV box and it works except I
can't upload to the TV box.
Its likely a permissions thing.
With Solaris its an easy fix but how with Android?

Lucifer wrote:

I installed a FTP app on the TV box and it works except I
can't upload to the TV box.
Its likely a permissions thing.
With Solaris its an easy fix but how with Android?

Your "smart TV" has storage (so it can accept files)? Does your smart
TV have offline media storage? Which TV? Did you connect some storage
to one of the TV's ports? Some smart TVs will play movies from those,
some only show photos. Mine didn't support videos (just photos), so I
got a BD player that would work with a USB HDD to play movies, so the BD
player just passes the video stream to its output which is connected to
the TV. No idea what "FTP app" means for WHAT you installed into the TV

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 22:40:57 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Lucifer wrote:

I installed a FTP app on the TV box and it works except I
can't upload to the TV box.
Its likely a permissions thing.
With Solaris its an easy fix but how with Android?

Your "smart TV" has storage (so it can accept files)? Does your smart
TV have offline media storage? Which TV? Did you connect some storage
to one of the TV's ports? Some smart TVs will play movies from those,
some only show photos. Mine didn't support videos (just photos), so I
got a BD player that would work with a USB HDD to play movies, so the BD
player just passes the video stream to its output which is connected to
the TV. No idea what "FTP app" means for WHAT you installed into the TV

You are jumping to conclusions again because you aren't reading the
post! It's a tv box, not a tv, do try to keep up :-)

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On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 05:43:25 +0100 (BST), "rp"
wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 22:40:57 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Lucifer wrote:

I installed a FTP app on the TV box and it works except I
can't upload to the TV box.
Its likely a permissions thing.
With Solaris its an easy fix but how with Android?

Your "smart TV" has storage (so it can accept files)? Does your smart
TV have offline media storage? Which TV? Did you connect some storage
to one of the TV's ports? Some smart TVs will play movies from those,
some only show photos. Mine didn't support videos (just photos), so I
got a BD player that would work with a USB HDD to play movies, so the BD
player just passes the video stream to its output which is connected to
the TV. No idea what "FTP app" means for WHAT you installed into the TV

You are jumping to conclusions again because you aren't reading the
post! It's a tv box, not a tv, do try to keep up :-)

I would have made the same mistake. :-) I know plenty of people who call
their TV "the box", so it's no stretch at all to assume that a "TV box"
is simply a TV. So will you please tell us what a TV box really is?

Lucifer wrote:
I installed a FTP app on the TV box and it works except I
can't upload to the TV box.
Its likely a permissions thing.
With Solaris its an easy fix but how with Android?

My only comment to this post, is there are two
ends to an FTP connection.

One end needs "ftpd", an FTP server daemon.

The other end runs a "client" program. A suitable
client, for example, could be a browser using
an ftp:// URL. There is also a command line
ftp.exe kind of application on Windows, that
you can also use for this sort of thing.

Client example (in Command Prompt) - .exe added for emphasis...

ftp.exe 192.168.7.29
user anonymous
pass really@home
binary
put some.bin
quit

In Windows, the ftpd is part of IIS. That's how
you get it without using third party applications.
IIS covers both a web server and an ftp server.

Summary: Make sure one end is a server, the other end
is a client. The "server process" should be
configured to have write access to the folder.
It wouldn't be much of a server, if it never
had any write permissions at all.

To test, you could even set up a server and client
on the *same* computer, and do

ftp.exe 127.0.0.1 # Test localhost

You *can* do blind drop boxes in FTP. You can set the
permissions so the FTP server folder cannot be listed,
yet the "put some.bin" still works. Such things
are possible.

Paul

rp wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 22:40:57 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Lucifer wrote:

I installed a FTP app on the TV box and it works except I
can't upload to the TV box.
Its likely a permissions thing.
With Solaris its an easy fix but how with Android?

Your "smart TV" has storage (so it can accept files)? Does your smart
TV have offline media storage? Which TV? Did you connect some storage
to one of the TV's ports? Some smart TVs will play movies from those,
some only show photos. Mine didn't support videos (just photos), so I
got a BD player that would work with a USB HDD to play movies, so the BD
player just passes the video stream to its output which is connected to
the TV. No idea what "FTP app" means for WHAT you installed into the TV

You are jumping to conclusions again because you aren't reading the
post! It's a tv box, not a tv, do try to keep up :-)

Well, Mister Smarty, then move my inquiry to the TV "box". Does *IT*
have storage for files? Yeah, you don't know, either.

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 22:40:57 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Lucifer wrote:

I installed a FTP app on the TV box and it works except I
can't upload to the TV box.
Its likely a permissions thing.
With Solaris its an easy fix but how with Android?

Your "smart TV" has storage (so it can accept files)? Does your smart
TV have offline media storage? Which TV? Did you connect some storage
to one of the TV's ports? Some smart TVs will play movies from those,
some only show photos. Mine didn't support videos (just photos), so I
got a BD player that would work with a USB HDD to play movies, so the BD
player just passes the video stream to its output which is connected to
the TV. No idea what "FTP app" means for WHAT you installed into the TV

My TV can only show pictures from a USB device so I have an Android
TV box connected. I have a 320 GB USB hard drive connected to the
TV box. I want to be able to FTP video files from my Windows 10
PC to the TV box hard drive.

Update. Problem solved.
I made the FTP server user name root so now I can upload.

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 05:42:14 +0200 (GMT+02:00), Libor Striz
wrote:

Lucifer Wrote in message:
I installed a FTP app on the TV box and it works except Ican't upload to the TV box.Its likely a permissions thing.With Solaris its an easy fix but how with Android?

What about termux, a very good Linux terminal emulator ?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...?id=com.termux

Note that it is by default sandboxed, you must explicitly allow access to Android storages:

https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Interna...ternal_storage

Thanks. I solved the problem.

I made the FTP server user name root so now I can upload.

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 01:06:31 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 05:43:25 +0100 (BST), "rp"
wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 22:40:57 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Lucifer wrote:

I installed a FTP app on the TV box and it works except I
can't upload to the TV box.
Its likely a permissions thing.
With Solaris its an easy fix but how with Android?

Your "smart TV" has storage (so it can accept files)? Does your smart
TV have offline media storage? Which TV? Did you connect some storage
to one of the TV's ports? Some smart TVs will play movies from those,
some only show photos. Mine didn't support videos (just photos), so I
got a BD player that would work with a USB HDD to play movies, so the BD
player just passes the video stream to its output which is connected to
the TV. No idea what "FTP app" means for WHAT you installed into the TV

You are jumping to conclusions again because you aren't reading the
post! It's a tv box, not a tv, do try to keep up :-)

I would have made the same mistake. :-) I know plenty of people who call
their TV "the box", so it's no stretch at all to assume that a "TV box"
is simply a TV. So will you please tell us what a TV box really is?

A TV box is an external device, basically a small computer, that
gives a dumb TV the functions of a smart TV.

On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 13:44:04 +1000, Lucifer
wrote:

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 01:06:31 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 05:43:25 +0100 (BST), "rp"
wrote:

You are jumping to conclusions again because you aren't reading the
post! It's a tv box, not a tv, do try to keep up :-)

I would have made the same mistake. :-) I know plenty of people who call
their TV "the box", so it's no stretch at all to assume that a "TV box"
is simply a TV. So will you please tell us what a TV box really is?

A TV box is an external device, basically a small computer, that
gives a dumb TV the functions of a smart TV.

Thanks. It sounds like a cross between what I call a media player and
perhaps a Roku, from a functionality perspective.

Lucifer wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 22:40:57 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Lucifer wrote:

I installed a FTP app on the TV box and it works except I
can't upload to the TV box.
Its likely a permissions thing.
With Solaris its an easy fix but how with Android?

Your "smart TV" has storage (so it can accept files)? Does your smart
TV have offline media storage? Which TV? Did you connect some storage
to one of the TV's ports? Some smart TVs will play movies from those,
some only show photos. Mine didn't support videos (just photos), so I
got a BD player that would work with a USB HDD to play movies, so the BD
player just passes the video stream to its output which is connected to
the TV. No idea what "FTP app" means for WHAT you installed into the TV

My TV can only show pictures from a USB device so I have an Android
TV box connected. I have a 320 GB USB hard drive connected to the
TV box. I want to be able to FTP video files from my Windows 10
PC to the TV box hard drive.

Update. Problem solved.
I made the FTP server user name root so now I can upload.

Similar to routers where the username is fixed to "admin" and all you
can do is change the password.

On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 00:34:56 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 13:44:04 +1000, Lucifer
wrote:

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 01:06:31 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 05:43:25 +0100 (BST), "rp"
wrote:

You are jumping to conclusions again because you aren't reading the
post! It's a tv box, not a tv, do try to keep up :-)

I would have made the same mistake. :-) I know plenty of people who call
their TV "the box", so it's no stretch at all to assume that a "TV box"
is simply a TV. So will you please tell us what a TV box really is?

A TV box is an external device, basically a small computer, that
gives a dumb TV the functions of a smart TV.

Thanks. It sounds like a cross between what I call a media player and
perhaps a Roku, from a functionality perspective.

I have a Telstra TV as well which is a Roku.
The MXq Pro box that I use has Android 6.0.
It can run most apps from the Play Store.

On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 05:11:53 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Lucifer wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 22:40:57 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Lucifer wrote:

I installed a FTP app on the TV box and it works except I
can't upload to the TV box.
Its likely a permissions thing.
With Solaris its an easy fix but how with Android?

Your "smart TV" has storage (so it can accept files)? Does your smart
TV have offline media storage? Which TV? Did you connect some storage
to one of the TV's ports? Some smart TVs will play movies from those,
some only show photos. Mine didn't support videos (just photos), so I
got a BD player that would work with a USB HDD to play movies, so the BD
player just passes the video stream to its output which is connected to
the TV. No idea what "FTP app" means for WHAT you installed into the TV

My TV can only show pictures from a USB device so I have an Android
TV box connected. I have a 320 GB USB hard drive connected to the
TV box. I want to be able to FTP video files from my Windows 10
PC to the TV box hard drive.

Update. Problem solved.
I made the FTP server user name root so now I can upload.

Similar to routers where the username is fixed to "admin" and all you
can do is change the password.

The FTP server app I use allows me to specify any username
and password so I don't need to know the root password
on the TV box.

I'm using a telnet server app on the same TV box and it works
but does not allow access to the external hard drive.
With that app I can't specify the user name.
I'm hoping to find an app which allow me to use the same
trick as I did with the FTP server app.

A TV box is an external device, basically a small computer, that
gives a dumb TV the functions of a smart TV.

Thanks. It sounds like a cross between what I call a media player and
perhaps a Roku, from a functionality perspective.

The TV box turns your HDMI TV into an Android device... without the
cellular phone features.

On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 03:56:01 -0500, "M. L." wrote:

A TV box is an external device, basically a small computer, that
gives a dumb TV the functions of a smart TV.

Thanks. It sounds like a cross between what I call a media player and
perhaps a Roku, from a functionality perspective.

The TV box turns your HDMI TV into an Android device... without the
cellular phone features.

I have an Android tablet that is also a DECT cordless phone.