Help me :) - Total Commandeer FTP and Windows network settings

[hozsoltis]

Hello,

I am asking for help with the following.

1. In the case of Total Commander, how exactly and what to set if I want to create an FTP connection to the MEGA account.
2. In the case of Windows Explorer, how exactly and what to set if I want to create a network connection to the MEGA account.

I visited several support sites, including the MEGA site, but unfortunately none of the settings were successful.
Please do not send a link or a document description, but rather what exactly needs to be set in which field.

Thank you very much :)

Zsolt Horváth

[polmr]

The URL needs to be the one MEGAcmd indicates. eg:

ftp://127.0.0.1:4990/ioxxQJLA/my_folder

That IP (127.0.0.1) is the loopback IP: MEGAcmd need to be running in the same computer for that to make sense.
Access needs to be configured anonymous

I visited several support sites,

I guess not the user guide for FTP.
There you can see what needs to be set in which field: there's a screenshot of what goes into Windows configuration

JIC, the ioxxQJLA is something dynamic, depending on the folder you have passed to MEGAcmd ftp command

[thany]

Just came across this issue while search for alternate way to connect to MEGA for scripting purposes, without having to use MEGAcmd. Turns out MEGAcmd needs to be set up prior to be able to use FTP access.

So it got me thinking - why can't MEGA provide FTP (or SFTP rather) access directly? Or even SSH or WEBDAV or NFS or another well-known file transfer mechanism? Authentication could be done using tokens. This would make a script completely portable, because it could use commodity tools and commands provided by the OS.

Just wondering why MEGA, without marketing or security excuses, chose to develop a totally custom tool that also isn't portable. Sure it's useful, but it shouldn't be essential for scripting simple uploads and downloads.

[polmr]

Hello @thany !

You may want to know that MEGA has support for integration with Object Storage clients, without the requirement to have a dedicated piece of software running in client's premises. See https://mega.io/objectstorage

[thany]

Hello @thany !

You may want to know that MEGA has support for integration with Object Storage clients, without the requirement to have a dedicated piece of software running in client's premises. See https://mega.io/objectstorage

No I don't, not really. I want to store files, not objects. Why can't that happen over well-documented and widely-implemented protocols like SFTP or SSH?