Locked in FTP directory

[biophemoc]

Hey,
I've installed FreeNAS on my new machine, but it seems as if nothing is working. I reinstalled it already, but neither does CIFS nor FTP work properly. CIFS is just not working at all (vfs thingy that several people seem do have), but that's a different story.
My main problem is, that I can connect via FTP, but I end up in a directory containing files named ".login", ".profile". But I don't know where this directory is. I changed the ftp root in the ftp config, I changed the user home directory, but it is impossible to go to my zfs pool ("/mnt/media"), I always end up in the same folder.
At the beginning I could upload files to this folder (which now stopped working), but these transfers suffered from severe "zfs stalls".
How can I change the ftp folder?

Cheers,
biophemoc

Edit: Ok, I fixed it. The tick on "chroot always active" was checked. And I needed about an hour to figure that out. Well, maybe someone stumples upon this and finds it helpful. :D For some reason the zfs lags are gone in the right directory…

 

[m0nkey_]

Chroot by default is enabled, you need to either disable it to allow users outside of their home directory, or add the FTP user to the 'wheel' group.

 

[depasseg]

Make sure that box isn't accessible to the internet or it will be owned in a matter of minutes. By removing chroot, you have given an extremely unsecured protocol (ftp) full access to your server.

 

[biophemoc]

Thanks for the hint, it definitely is not accessible from the internet. I would prefer some other protocol, but CIFS is slow as hell and NFS isn't much faster. FTP is alright (70MB/s), but I'm not very happy with it. I'll have to figure out where the problem is.