Accessing an FTP share via UNC path?

Question

I have an FTP share configured on a server that I can access successfully using ftp://xx.xx.xx.xx/.

One of my tools (Release Management) requires a UNC path for access:

Is there any way that I can use UNC pathing to access a folder on a remote machine (Azure VM) over the internet?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 01 '16 at 13:59

Unfortunately you can't use UNC paths to refer to locations on FTP. UNC paths imply SMB/local Windows paths.

An alternative would be to mount a FTP site as a local drive, and then pass that local path to your tool. See e.g. http://www.thewindowsclub.com/map-an-ftp-drive-windows

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 27 '16 at 01:28

What you think of for UNC paths \\server\share are typically for SMB/CIFS aka "Windows file shares", not FTP.

You can use a free Samba server to host the files you need and they'll be accessible by a UNC path:

Some links for you:

Here is Samba file server setup for Ubuntu:

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