By Erik Small -

Luis, Ipswitch File Transfer’s Technical Support Specialist, demonstrates how to create an email notification in Ipswitch WS_FTP Professional.

By Erik Small -

Scheduling a transfer using a script

If you’re setup with a file transfer client and make regular connections to an FTP server, you can easily automate file transfers. This is useful if you want to update a website nightly, or update the same document daily. There are a few ways to do this with WS_FTP. With the Scheduler Utility, you upload a file by setting a specified time interval. Utilizing the Synchronize Utility, a mirrored ( local vs. remote) set of files can be ’synchronized’ automatically. The third feature is for an advanced user — Script Utility allows for a scheduled file transfer, but also allows for deleting files, changing directories, or checking success/failure of a command.

Detailed ‘how-to’ can be viewed in the WS_FTP Professional Tools Guide.

By Erik Small -

A common FTP question in the file transfer community for users that are new to FTP is: What is my user ID and password?

The host administrator (or FTP Server administrator) that you’re connecting to typically generates the User ID and Password. Then the FTP client uses the same User ID and Password to connect to that FTP Server. All passwords are encrypted on the server and the administrator can control the length and character set for passwords.

It’s an easy one, but an important for anyone getting started with a file transfer from client to server.