Technicolor - Thomson SpeedTouchTM620 manual SpeedTouch File System, Opening an FTP session

Chapter 7

The SpeedTouch™ File System

7 The SpeedTouch™ File System

Introduction The SpeedTouch™ file system exists of nonvolatile memory responsible for storing, retrieving and maintaining the system software files, configuration profile files, language-pack files, software activation keys, secure storage files, etc.

The file system of the SpeedTouch™ is accessible via the well known File Transfer

Protocol (FTP). This allows to backup and restore files present on the SpeedTouch™ file system. Moreover, via FTP's quote site command you are able to use a limited set of CLI commands from the FTP prompt.

Opening an FTP session	Proceed as follows to open an FTP session to the SpeedTouch™ file system (the
to the SpeedTouch™	example shows an ftp session opened from an MS Windows Command Prompt):

In the example above the default SpeedTouch™ IP address 192.168.1.254 is assumed, however another IP address may be assigned to your SpeedTouch™ device.

In its default firewall configuration, FTP access to the SpeedTouch™ file system is restricted to access from the local network only.

File system structure The file system features a tiny multilevel directory structure with two nodes '/active' and '/dl'.

The root directory is secured and contains two subdirectories ‘/active’ and ‘/dl’.

The ‘/active’ subdirectory contains the system software in execution. Other files may be present to ensure the good operation of the device, or due to previous system software upgrades.

The ‘/dl’ subdirectory is the directory where you can find a user.ini file, holding the most recently saved SpeedTouch™ configuration. The ‘/dl’ subdirectory also contains the passive (dormant) system software (in most cases the passive system software will be the same as the active system software present the ‘/active’ subdirectory. Optionally, the ‘/dl’ subdirectory may contain software activation keys for enabling SpeedTouch™ software modules, language pack files and template files. Other files may be present as well to ensure the good operation of the device.

There may be a user.ini file present in the ‘/active’ subdirectory. However, this user.ini only contains the saved configuration since the last software switchover, and hence may be not up-to-date.

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