Installing EFT Server and Administrator

Installing Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) Server and Administrator

This topic provides instructions for installing the EFT Server service, EFT Administrator, and the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) version 8 for auditing and reporting. If you are using a SQL database for auditing and reporting, you do not have to install the MSDE database. Refer to Using a SQL Database as the Auditing Database.

If you are upgrading from a previous version of EFT Server, refer to Upgrading EFT Server.

When you install the Server, each of the modules is also installed. To activate the modules after the evaluation period, you must purchase a serial number specific to each module.

If you are using Windows 2000 for your server installation and will be using ARM (Auditing and Reporting Module; captures the transactions passing through EFT Server and provides an interface in EFT Administrator where you can use preconfigured or your own custom reports to query, filter, and view transaction data), you must update MDAC prior to installation. You can find the latest update at http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/mdac/downloads. This does not apply to Windows XP or Windows 2003, as they come with a newer version of MDAC that is compliant.

To install EFT Server and Administrator

Start the installation wizard and follow the instructions in the wizard.

Read the license agreement and click Yes to accept it.

Specify the folder in which to install the software. The default is C:\Program Files\Globalscape\EFT. Click Browse to specify a different folder.

Click Next. The Select Components dialog box appears.

Select the check boxes for the components that you want to install:

Select Enhanced File Transfer Server Service (cftpstes.exe) and the Administrator Interface (cftpsai.exe) to install them both on this computer.
Select only the Administrator Interface for remote administration of an EFT Server installed on another computer.
Select MSDE database for auditing & reporting to install the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine database to use with the Auditing and Reporting module. If you are planning to use a separate database, you can clear this check box, unless you plan to use it for testing. Refer to Using a SQL Database as the Auditing Database if you decide not to use MSDE.

Click Next. The Administrator Account Settings dialog box appears.

Create a user name and password for the administrator account for connecting to EFT Server from EFT Administrator.

Remember your user name and password; you need them to connect to EFT Server. If you later forget your password, refer to Forgetting the EFT Server Administrator Password.

Click OK. If you chose to install MSDE, the Database Login Details dialog box appears.

Create a username and password for EFT Server's connection to the MSDE database. The username and password are used on the Auditing tab in EFT Administrator to configure the connection to the database.

Click Next. The installer installs the selected components and creates the database (if you chose to install it), then the Finished dialog box appears.

If you want to read the release notes, select the View README file check box. If you want to read it later, the file, notes.txt, is stored in the EFT Server installation directory.

The Launch Administrator Interface check box is selected by default. If you do not want to open EFT Administrator, clear the check box.

Click Finish. If the Launch Administrator Interface check box was selected, EFT Administrator appears for you to log in. EFT Administrator is used to configure EFT Server. You can also open EFT Administrator by clicking Start > Programs > GlobalSCAPE > GlobalSCAPE EFT.

Do one of the following:

If you installed the Server service on this computer, leave This computer selected.
If you installed only the Administrator to administer EFT Server on another computer, click A remote computer.

Click New. The New Administrator Connection wizard appears.
In the Label box, provide a descriptive name for the EFT Server computer. This name will appear in logs and reports.
In the Host address box, provide the IP address of the EFT Server computer.
In the Port box, provide the port number of the EFT Server computer.
Click Next.

In the Username and Password boxes, provide the login credentials that you created in step 7.

Click Connect. The EFT Administrator appears.

Next Steps:

Activate the Software

Set Windows System Services

The Server service runs under a user account, which must have full administrative rights to the folder in which you install EFT Server. With administrative rights, the Server service can save all your settings. If the service does not have administrative rights, you will lose settings and user accounts whenever you restart the Server service, and you will need to reset permissions on the computer on which the Server service is running.