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I have an external drive connected to a network using an Addonics NASU2 adapter. The adapter has Samba, FTP and media server capabilities. I can see the drive in a Finder window identified as storage-049f.

This particular adapter requires FAT32 format of the hard drive so I cannot use Time Machine for my backups. So I am trying out ChronoSync. ChronoSync requires the following information to set up a connection to a drive.

Profile Name: storage-049f      # I think any name will do but i'm not sure
Internet Address: 111.111.1.111 # an IP address
Port: ???                       # Can't find the port number
Username: Jay
Password: 111111111

Each time i test the connection, it fails.

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@lupincho thanks. I tried the command substituting the ip addy and the terminal cursor goes down to the next line with no content. When i type in netstat i get 4 tcp4 local/foreign addresses but none of them the ip address of the NAS drive. – Jay Feb 3 at 22:09
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This means that your computer is not connected to the NAS (the fact that you see it on the network doesn't mean that it is connected to it). Try to connect to it (ask whoever administers it how to do that, it really depends on what kind of services are available on the NAS). – lupincho Feb 3 at 22:12
@lupincho thanks. Samba, FTP and media server capabilities are available on the NAS. – Jay Feb 4 at 3:03
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You would need to check also what protocols can ChronoSync do. If ChronoSync can use FTP, most likely it would be port 21 (the standard FTP port). If it can do Samba (support.apple.com/kb/HT1568), connect to the server and check which port it uses (could be 137 - 139 or 445). Another idea -- what happens if you leave Port empty? Typically software is set so that in that case, it uses the standard port for whatever protocol it uses. – lupincho Feb 4 at 8:14
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