Starting and Stopping EFT Server

EFT Server starts automatically and runs as a Windows system service. If you close the EFT Administrator, EFT Server continues to run in the background as a system service.

For the procedure for a remote Server, refer to Starting and Stopping EFT Server Remotely.

To start or stop EFT Server in EFT Administrator

  1. In EFT Administrator, click Edit > Service Applet Settings. The Transfer Engine Service Settings dialog box appears.

  2. Click Start service (or Stop service), then click Close.

To start or stop EFT Server using the Services option in the Control Panel

  1. In the Windows Services dialog box, right-click or double-click the GlobalSCAPE EFT Server service and click Start (or Stop).

  2. Close the Services and Administrative Tools dialog box.

To start or stop EFT Server from the command line

  1. Click Start > Run.

  2. Enter cmd or command.

  3. Click OK.

  4. To start EFT Server, at the prompt type (include the quotation marks):

Net start "globalscape eft server"

  1. To stop EFT Server, at the prompt type (include the quotation marks):

Net stop "globalscape eft server"

  1. After the service is started or stopped, type Exit.

If Install service is the only button enabled in the Transfer Engine Service Settings dialog box, click it, then click Start service.

 

Any time you run a server, you expose your computer to outside users. The potential exists for exposing files and programs on your computer and network to malicious outside users, particularly if EFT Server is compromised.

 

Although you can set folder permissions from within the Server Administrator, you can add an extra level of protection by establishing a user account for EFT Server and then limiting folder access through EFT Server's user account permissions. This establishes a stopgap until server/system integrity can be restored if EFT Server is ever compromised.

To configure EFT Server to run securely, you should:

  1. Create a user account for EFT Server 

  2. Assign permissions to the EFTuser account

  3. Assign EFT Server to the account

  4. Log EFT Server on as a service

  5. If necessary, configure EFT Server's user account to map a virtual folder to a network drive.