4XEM IP Network Camera and Video Server Basic FTP Guide

This guide will provide basic information as to how to access your camera or video server via FTP. For the purpose of this guide, FTP communications with the camera/video server have been done using a command prompt window through Windows XP. To access a command prompt window simple click on "Start" then click on "Run". Now type "cmd' and press enter. You may also open a command prompt window by browsing to the All Programs\Applications directory of your Windows Start menu. Please remember that any changes made to the camera will be permanent. Please ensure that you copy all files to a safe location before overwriting. For more information on how to copy these important files please review the technical article titled "4XEM IP Network Camera and Video Server Advanced FTP Guide". For the purpose of this document no files will be overwritten and no settings will be changed.

1) Log into the camera/video server by typing "ftp x.x.x.x" where x.x.x.x is the IP Address of the camera. You will then be presented with the login. You will need to enter in the username of root and the password that is associated to the root account. Below is an example of what you should see.

FTP Login

C:\>ftp 192.168.0.103
Connected to 192.168.0.103.
220 Welcome to Network Camera FTP Server
User (192.168.0.103:(none)): root
331 User name okay, need password
Password: xxxxxx
230 User logged in, proceed

2) Now you should be logged into the camera/video server. To see the contents of the current directory that you are in type "dir" and then press Enter. The results can be seen below. Additionally, you can type "pwd" to find out what directory you are currently working in. PWD stands for Print Working Directory. To change directories you would type "cd dir_name" where dir_name is the name of the directory to which you want to change to.

Directory Information

ftp> dir 200 PORT command successful 150 Opening data connection.
drw-rw-rw-	1 ftp	ftp	0	Jan 01 1970	.
drw-rw-rw-	1 ftp	ftp	0	Jan 01 1970	..
-rw-rw-rw-	1 ftp	ftp	26151	Jan 02 00:04	script.vssx
drw-rw-rw-	1 ftp	ftp	0	Jan 01 1970	settings
-rw-rw-rw-	1 ftp	ftp	2400	Feb 11 20:15	config.ini
drw-rw-rw-	1 ftp	ftp	0	Jan 01 1970	www
-r--r--r--	1 ftp	ftp	4037	Feb 13 15:37	system.log
-r--r--r--	1 ftp	ftp	0	Jan 01 1970	snap_00.jpg
-r--r--r--	1 ftp	ftp	0	Jan 01 1970	snap_01.jpg
-r--r--r--	1 ftp	ftp	0	Jan 01 1970	snap_02.jpg
-r--r--r--	1 ftp	ftp	0	Jan 01 1970	snap_07.jpg
-r--r--r--	1 ftp	ftp	4646	Feb 13 15:37	video.jpg
--w--w--w-	1 ftp	ftp	1811152	Oct 14 2004	flash.bin
226 Transfer successful ftp: 1120 bytes received in 0.09Seconds 11.91Kbytes/sec. ftp> pwd 257 "/" is current directory. ftp> ftp> cd www 250 Change directory successful ftp> ftp> pwd 257 "/www/" is current directory.

3) To see a list of FTP commands associated with the camera/video server you can type "help". This will display the list of commands. Additionally, you can type "?" followed by the command to find out what the command will actually do.

Help - List of Commands

ftp> help Commands may be abbreviated. Commands are:
!	delete	literal	prompt	send
?	debug	ls	put	status
append	dir	mdelete	pwd	trace
ascii	disconnect	mdir	quit	type
bell	get	mget	quote	user
binary	glob	mkdir	recv	verbose
bye	hash	mls	remotehelp
cd	help	mput	rename
close	lcd	open	rmdir
ftp> ? cd cd Change remote working directory ftp> ftp> ? dir dir List contents of remote directory ftp> ftp> ? pwd pwd Print working directory on remote machine