TomatoUSB

I’m running Tomato (beta) Version 1.28

-I set up up a account with dyndns choose a server name
-I put all this info along with my account into the BASIC/ ddns tab DyNDns dynamic and received this Friday, September 28, 2012 10:23:38 AM:
Update successful.
-Under port forwarding tab / I setup a port forward TCP ext port 21 int address 192.168.1.1
-I currently have my DSL modem in bridge mode “not sure if this matters”

USB and NAS/ FTP SERVER
Enabled FTP server “ YES, WAN and LAN
FTP Port “ 21”
Allowed Remote Address “ I put in my server name from dyndns”
Anonymous User” disabled”
Allow admin login “unchecked”
LogFTP request “unchecked”
Public root and Private root directory are “/tmp/mnt/My_Passport”
Directory Listing “enabled”
The limits I left them all at ZERO
Idle Time out 300
Limit connection attemps “checked” 3 every 60 seconds
User Accounts I set up a username and password.

- I can see my USB device when in my LAN. I just can’t get remote access to it.

I’m a complete nood! I’m very new to all this I had this working with the asus firmware but it was crap and buggy. Please if you respond tell me exactly what to click and where to go as I’m still learning.

Thanks

Well here are some wrong things.

Remove the port forward. Setting FTP for WAN handles that and adding the port forward screws things up.

Allowed Remote Address should NOT be your dyndns name. It is for the names/address of the remote computers to which you want to limit access. You can leave it blank for no such restriction.

That is all I see at quick glance.

I went ahead and changed those things. Still no luck. BTW the way my router is the asus nt-r16 my provider is embarq DSL

Are you testing from a remote machine or are you trying the dyndns name from your LAN? The latter usually will not work. Some services (I cannot remember if FTP is one) will work if you set Advanced->Firewall->NAT Loopback to All. But still best to test from outside your LAN.

I'm trying to connect to my ftp server from a friends computer, on a different network once again with no luck. I went ahead and changed the Advanced->Firewall->NAT Loopback to All.

I was able to login from my friends computer and I can also see the files from my locoal computer. On the basic/ddns tab my host name set up like this example.ftpserve.net I just copyed and pasted it from the dnsdna website. Now I changed it to ftp://example.ftpserve.net all I did was put "FTP://" in front of it I get "Invalid hostname.
(1/3: Automatically retrying in 16 minutes)" but I am able to log and see files. I can't acecess anything. I'm really confussed now.