Canon WFT-E1 (A) Wireless File Transmitter Network Support Guide Windows XP - Infrastructure Wireless Mode Connection Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
Setting up the WFT-E1A on Windows XP Home or Professional – Infrastructure Wireless Mode This document will take you through the process of setting up the WFT-E1A wireless file transmitter in conjunction with a PC running Windows XP Home or Professional Edition.
On your desktop, right click on the “My Network Places” icon. Select Properties This opens your Network Connections pane. If you have a correctly installed Wireless “Dongle” on your computer you should see the Wireless Network Connection entry displayed here Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
Right Click on your Wireless Network Connection and select Properties. Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
This brings up the Wireless Network Connection Properties dialog box In the Wireless Network Connections dialog box you should see Client for Microsoft Networks, File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
We will need to create a static IP address for the computer on the network. To do this, select the General tab, select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click the Properties button. You should now see the following screen. In this screen, select “Use the Following IP address, and enter a unique IP address for the computer. In this example we have used 192.168.0.10 which will be the IP address which identifies the PC to the network. The Subnet mask should be set to 255.255.255.
You will now need to tell your network to connect in Infrastructure. Select the “Wireless Networks” tab, and tick the “Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings” box. Next click Advanced In the Advanced screen, select Access point (infrastructure) only as below and then select Close. Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
This will return you to the Wireless Network Connection Properties screen. Click on the “Advanced” tab and under Windows Firewall click the Settings Button. Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
On the Windows Firewall screen, if you do not require a firewall to be active then select “Off”. If you do require a firewall you will need to carry out the next step to allow the FTP port to be allowed through. Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
If you elect to switch on your firewall, click on the “Exceptions” tab. And click on the Add Port button Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
In the Add a Port screen, enter the name as FTP-TCP, and the port number as 21. Make sure TCP is selected. This will open a TCP connection on port 21through the firewall to enable control communication between the WFT-E1A and the FTP server. Click on OK. Now we need to open port 21 for UDP data also, so click on the “Add Port” button again Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
In the Add a Port screen, enter the name as FTP-UDP, and the port number as 21. Make sure UDP is selected. This will open a UDP connection on port 21through the firewall to enable data communication between the WFT-E1A and the FTP server. Click on OK Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
You should now have FTP-TCP and FTP-UDP entries in your Firewall Exceptions; port 21 is now open through your firewall. No settings on the Windows Firewall “Advanced” tab require any attention. Click OK. Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
Click OK on the Wireless Network Connections Properties screen and close the Network Connections window. You should now connect to your access point from your “dongle” and establish a connection between the two. It should show as connected under the Wireless Network tab, after pressing the Show Wireless Networks button. Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
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You will now need to set up your Access point, we will be setting up a Netgear WG602 here, however the settings should be similar on other makes of access point, however you may need a different IP address to get to the access point’s administration screen, so refer to your access point’s manual for this. The Netgear’s administration screen is located at 192.168.0.227, so we will open an internet explorer window and type the IP address into the URL bar.
Next you will need to set your Wireless settings. Use Auto or 11g only, as we will be using infrastructure mode, the SSID should be set here, for clarity we are setting this to the same as the access point name, ensure it is in capital letters, as SSID’s are case sensitive. If incorrect case is used for the SSID on either the AP or the WFT-E1A you will not be able to communicate between the two. Set your country region and the channel frequency, and lastly set the data rate to “Best”.
Leave your security and access settings off for now. Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
Stage 2 Setting up your FTP server on Windows XP Professional Edition (For XP Home Edition proceed to Stage 2A – Filezilla FTP Server Setup instead) Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
Setting up the FTP server on Windows XP Professional Installing the ftp server – Windows XP • • Select Add/Remove programs from control panel You must be an administrator of the local machine for this to be possible. If not contact your local IT department and ask them to do it. Select add/remove windows components then Windows Components Wizard displays Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
• Select the Internet Information Services option, and click Details… • Check the box for the ftp server, click OK Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
From control panel select Administrative Tools Then select Internet Information Services Right click and select properties on the Default FTP Site. If you wish you may rename this by right clicking on it and selecting rename. Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
Under the FTP Site Tab enter a description for the FTP server. Here we have used the name canon. Please note that this is case sensitive so input in lower case to avoid confusion. In IP address, your computer’s IP address should be available for selection, select this from its drop down menu. Ensure the port is set at port 21. Also ensure that “Enable Logging” is ticked to provide a log should you need to troubleshoot your setup at a later date.
Under the Security Accounts tab, you should tick Allow Anonymous connections, and leave the username as set by the Microsoft IIS FTP Server. This is usually in the format IUSR_ and then immediately followed by the name of the computer the server is running on. Make sure that Allow only anonymous connections and Allow IIS to control password are ticked. Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
Nothing is required on the messages tab, so proceed to the Home Directory page. The local path should be set to C:\Inetpub\ftproot as this is the area IIS uses for the FTP storage, and will be where the transmitted images are sent to. Ensure that Read / Write and Log Visits are all ticked. When setting up the WFT-E1 (A) username and password settings in Stage 3, you should use the username anonymous with no password set.
Stage 2A Setting up your FTP server on Windows XP Home Edition (For XP Professional Edition see Stage 2 – IIS FTP Server Setup instead) Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
Stage 2A – Setting up Filezilla FTP Server on your PC Download and install Filezilla FTP Server from http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ This is a freeware application covered by the GNU General Public Licence, please read this to ensure you comply with the license terms, however please note that this program is not provided by Canon and Canon cannot be responsible for any losses howsoever arising from its use in any way.
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Once you have Filezilla FTP Server installed, you’ll need to configure the properties of the server so that it can communicate through the computer and to the outside world correctly. Click Edit, Settings to do this. And copy the settings from the screenshots. The fields should be similar in other FTP server programs, and the same setting should be used regardless of the FTP server program used. Timeout settings should be set to 0 so no timeout takes place or the WFT-E1A will be logged out if idle.
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Once all the server settings have been checked, then you will need to create a user for the FTP server. This will ultimately identify the WFT-E1A to the server. Similar fields will appear in other FTP server programs. To do this, select “Users” from the “Edit” menu. Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
In the General section of the Users screen, click the add button to add a user to the FTP server Type in a username, ensuring there are no spaces or other non alphanumeric characters. Here the username we have selected is canonuk. Click OK Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
Back in the General section of the Users screen, tick the password box and enter a password, again only using alphanumeric characters and no spaces. Here we are using the password pass. Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
Before the next step, create a folder on your C: driver called FTP. This is where your images will be transferred to. This can be a folder anywhere on your hard drive but for ease of use we’ll stick to the C: drive here. Make you don’t include any spaces or non alphanumeric characters in this folder name. Select the Shared folders section of the Users menu. In the Shared folders click the Add button to add a folder where the images will be transferred to.
Select the FTP folder we created on the C: drive earlier and click OK. Now we have defined our destination folder, you must set the permissions of access for the WFT-E1A. You must set full read and write permissions on the destination folder, failure to do so will result in the WFT-E1A issuing an error and failing to transmit the picture. Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
Select the speed limit page and select “No Limit” on both download and upload. Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
The IP Filter page should be left blank. Click OK to return to the Server window Authored by Simon Adams Product Support Specialist Canon UK RCC December 05 Revision 1.
From the main server window click on the Server menu and make sure there is a tick next to Active. This ensures that the server is active, running and ready to receive data from the WFT-E1A unit. Ensure your server shows as running in the taskbar here shown as the FZ (Filezilla) logo. Stage 2 is now complete, the computer is ready to receive pictures via your wireless network from the WFT-E1A, and we can now move onto stage 3, setting up the WFT-E1A on the camera body itself.
Stage 3 – Setting up the WFT-E1A using the WFT-E1A Utility Load the utility from the Canon WFT-E1A disc. In the first tab TCP/IP, select “Use the following IP address” and enter an IP address here which will identify the WFT-E1A to the network. Ensure this address is not used by any other network device. We have used 192.168.0.50 here. The subnet mask should be set to 255.255.255.0 as only the last set of numbers will change on the network.
Select the FTP settings tab, here we will enter settings that match the FTP server settings we set up in stages 1 & 2 within the Wireless Network Properties and Filezilla FTP server. The target server address should be should match the address of the PC’s wireless transmitter (dongle) in this case it is 192.168.0.10. The port number should match the port number we opened in the FTP server, in this case Port 21 (which is in fact the industry standard port for FTP transfers).
Now select the Wireless LAN settings tab. In the SSID setting, you must enter the name of the SSID you set on your Access Point. Ensure the SSID is in capital letters, as SSID’s are case sensitive. If incorrect case is used for the SSID on either the AP or the WFT-E1A you will not be able to communicate between the two.
Lastly you will need to load the settings file into your camera. Insert the CF card containing the .NIF file and load the settings into your camera as detailed on page 23-25 of the WFT-E1A manual. The orange link light should blink a few times, disappear, then remain steady and the display should show the connected speed as in the picture below.
