Add Obi Device without a phone handset?

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chmedly:
"If you want to mount it you could mount it as an ftp drive."
Wait, what am I missing?  How do you do this? 
What I want to do is automatically nightly backup a computer that runs 24/7 @ one location to a hard drive at another location.  I thought the Obi202 might let me use one of my existing usb drives to do it, thereby saving a few bucks instead of buying a new nas device.  dlna could be cool too although I might just end up with a plex server anyway....

QBZappy:
chmedly,

You can mount an ftp share like so:
ftp:(2 forward slashes //)Username:PW@DDNS:port#

Sorry about the braces. Forum was incorrectly placing http:// in front.

You will have to port forward port 21 to the Obi202

Edit: just tried both ways. I could not get it to work. I could not use a browser to http address and could not use windows explorer to ftp to it. I can only browse the files using the local web page of the Obi202. This limits it's usefulness indeed.
ftp:(2 forward slashes //)Username:PW@DDNS:port#
http://Username:PW@DDNS:port#

Http and ftp file servers are different in nature. It looks like the OBi is a http file server only. It limits file browsing within the OBi202 web page. Seems like a strange limitation.

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