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Mac OS X

  1. Log in to Mac OS X as Administrator → start the FTP services under Mac OS X.
  1. Click the [Sharing] icon → [Allow FTP access] → click [Show All] on the toolbar.
  1. Click [Users] to open the [Users] window → enter the name of the user to whom you want to send data from the machine through Mac OS X → enter the password.

Enter a user name, and a password not longer than 24 alphanumeric characters.
  1. Create a shared folder to which files are to be sent.

Sample setting:
Create a folder named "iR_Folder" in the [Public] folder in the [Home] folder.
  1. Select the shared folder created in step 4 → select [Show Info] from the [File] menu → select [Privileges] from [Show] → enable read & write access to the folder by the owner and members of the group to which the owner belongs.
  1. Set a recipient address using the control panel.

Sample recipient setting:

  • Server side settings (set using the above procedure):
    Create a folder named "iR_Folder" in the [Public] folder in the [Home] folder of the user named "yoko," and then specify the iR_Folder as the folder to which files are sent.
  • The machine's recipient settings:
<Protocol>: FTP
[Host Name]: IP address of Macintosh
[Folder Path]: Enter one of the following:
Public/iR_Folder (If you enter a relative path)
/Users/yoko/Public/iR_Folder (If you enter an absolute path)
[User]: User name entered in step 3
[Password]: Password for the above user

  • Up to 255 alphanumeric characters can be entered for [Folder Path] on the control panel.
  • If you switch the language of the touch panel display, [Host Name] and [Folder Path] may not be displayed correctly.
  • If you want to send to an IPv4 host using an FTP port other than port 21, set [Host Name] using the following format:
    <IPv4 address of FTP server>:<Port number>
    Example: 192.168.1.21:21000
  • To send to an IPv6 host, set [Host Name] using the following format:
    <IPv6 address>:<Port number>
    Example: [5aed:90a0:bc05:01d2:568a:2fc0:0001:12ee]:21000

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