FTP problem

[Joeryan]

I am using ftp wanderer. I do not have any problems conecting to my sat-t60. All of my files show up. I am trying to move tytools to my /var/hack/ but when I click to upload them it just retries 3 times and says upload failed. I am following these intructions http://tipster.stormrad.com/tivo/extractionmpg2.html

[captain_video]

It's likely that your filesystem is set as read only which is why the uploads are failing. Make it read/write before uploading as follows. From bash, type in:

mount -o remount,rw /

[newbie]

Shouldn't the var partition always be set up for read and write access? That's where the logs are written. Is it possible you already transferred the file and you're getting a file exists error?

[Joeryan]

When I start up the ftp wanderer program I connect to my tivo and all files are shown. I then navigate to the var/hack folder and drag and drop one of the files from tytools, not even a whole folder, just one of the files. I then receive a message now connecting to my tivos ip address. The pogram tries to send the file then times out and says unable to connect. How is it unable to connect when it is already connected? I changed the file system to rw and that did not change anything. I have done everything on steve jenkins instructions before I tried using the ftp wanderer. Any more suggestions?

[sanderton]

Not familar with FTP Wanderer, try a known-to-work client like SmartFTP.

[Joeryan]

Thank you, that seems to have been the problem.

[psxboy]

...I then receive a message now connecting to my tivos ip address. The pogram tries to send the file then times out and says unable to connect. How is it unable to connect when it is already connected?

Just FYI for people coming across this thread later on... It sounds like your FTP client is attempting to make a SECOND connection to the Tivo to actually transfer the file. Many FTP clients do this (use one connection for browsing the filesystem and a second, separate connection to transfer files) but the Tivo's FTP server can only do one connection at a time. My guess is that if you looked in the settings for FTPWanderer you'd find a way to limit the number of connections per site to 1. That would fix the problem.

-psxboy