Creating Secure Shell-Enabled FTP Profiles
FTP profiles are saved session configurations. Typically, they contain the settings to connect to an FTP server on a remote machine to and from which you want to transfer files. In the case of Secure Shell-enabled FTP profiles, however, you must provide the parameters to establish a Secure Shell tunnel to the target host.
To create a Secure Shell-enabled FTP profile:
- Using the Start menu, start Classic FTP.
- In the Open Connection dialog box, type the server address, user name and password.
- Select Secure Shell.
- At this point, you have provided the minimum requirements to establish a Secure Shell tunnel to the remote host. This configuration supports password authentication only. If you want to configure different authentication methods, or want to use a tunnel profile, proceed with the next step. Otherwise, click Open.
- Click Configure. The Secure Shell Configuration dialog box opens.
- To specify a tunnel profile, do one of the following. Otherwise, proceed to the next step.
- Type the name of the tunnel profile (profilename.csp) into the CSS Tunnel Profile box.
- Click Browse to access the Connectivity Secure Shell Open Tunnel dialog box which lets you select from a list of your tunnel profiles. Then click Open.
- Click Create to access the Connectivity Secure Shell Add New Tunnel dialog box, which lets you create a new tunnel profile with default settings.
Note:
Every time you select a new tunnel profile, change the name of a tunnel profile, or click Reload, all override values you have specified in the FTP profile are reset.
- To configure the authentication method, click Config and press F1 help. Otherwise proceed to the next step.
- In the Secure Shell Configuration dialog box, click OK.
- The Open Connection dialog box now displays the parameters as you configured them in the previous two steps.
Note:
Some parameters may have no specified value depending on your previous configurations.
- You now have the option of modifying any connection parameter.