# How to set the FTP user's home folder to attached USB drive?

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**Category:** Router\
**Created:** [April 27, 2023, 5:08am UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-set-the-ftp-users-home-folder-to-attached-usb-drive/29254 "2023-04-27T05:08:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![someguy](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@someguy](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/someguy)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 5:08am UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-set-the-ftp-users-home-folder-to-attached-usb-drive/29254/1 "2023-04-27T05:08:07Z")

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Hi all,

I have vsftpd-tls installed. I have edited /etc/vsftpd.conf so that listen=YES.

I can connect via anonymous FTP, but, when I arrive in my file explorer / ftp client, the folder is empty.

I have 2 x Hard Drives running as Samba Shares via a powered hub. This works well. But, I want one of them to be the FTP user’s home folder, so when I ftp in, I can see the hard drive.

So I’m trying to figuire out how do do this. Does anyone know the steps to do this?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![robotluo](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/user_avatar/forum.gl-inet.com/robotluo/32/17434_2.png) [@robotluo](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/robotluo)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 12:03pm UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-set-the-ftp-users-home-folder-to-attached-usb-drive/29254/2 "2023-04-27T12:03:59Z")

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I don’t have a lot of experience with this, but it seems to require a bit more configuration, or there are other file read and write permissions, I suggest you don’t use tls yet, tls can be added when you have more experience with this issue.

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**Author:** ![bruce](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/user_avatar/forum.gl-inet.com/bruce/32/35649_2.png) [@bruce](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/bruce)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 4:21am UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-set-the-ftp-users-home-folder-to-attached-usb-drive/29254/3 "2025-10-29T04:21:49Z")

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