Accessing a USB Drive through FTP?

[jwilliams991]

I have set up an FTP server on my raspberry pi and want to be able to access the contents of a USB drive through it. How could I do this?

[bobray]

You will have to mount the usb.
I found some pretty good tutorials
for mounting and setting up a file
server using samba:
Mounting: http://elinux.org/RPi_Adding_USB_Drives
Smb server: http://elinux.org/R-Pi_NAS

Good luck

[FTrevorGowen]

Wheezy Raspbian appears to have a SFTP (Secure FTP, normally port 22 as opposed to 21 for FTP) server running "out of the box". Having ensured the USB (flash) is auto-mounted at boot-time it's directory structure should be found below /media . I run a local MoinMoin wiki on a USB stick plugged into my first (model B1) Pi and use SFTP to (via a FileZilla client on my netbook) to transfer an export of this to my external webpages. BTW I "have to" also recommend the "mounting link" - I contributed to it . Trev.