Web Transfer Client Licensing

With the Web Transfer Client (WTC), users can transfer folders, files, and groups of folders and files to and from their local filesystem to a remote filesystem. (Refer to The Web Transfer Client for details of using the WTC.)

Use of the WTC requires the purchase of a license. Licenses for the WTC are for concurrent users; any number can have access, but only the number specified by the license can use the WTC concurrently. Session use is cookie based. If the license number is exceeded, the user is automatically directed to the HTML Upload Form page with an explanatory error message: "There are not enough available concurrent licenses to open the Web Transfer Client. Contact your Server administrator for help." You can edit the text that is displayed by editing the HTML file, NoAppletLicenses.htm, stored by default in C:\Program Files\GlobalSCAPE\EFT\EFTClient\, or hide the error message so that it does not appear (users would just be redirected to the HTML Upload form).

The number of Web Client sessions includes the number of times a single user has refreshed the screen to open another session, not just the number of users who are connected. Each refresh of the browser counts as one session, so inform users not to click the browser's Refresh icon or F5. Instead, click the Refresh icon in the WTC, which refreshes the display without requesting a new session.

The WTC is available for use during 30-day trials of EFT Server. The trial allows up to 5 concurrent sessions. After the trial has expired, a license must be purchased to resume use of the WTC.

You can view the number of licenses available in the Administrator (on the main menu, click Help > About) and on the Status tab.

To activate the Web Transfer Client

  1. In the Administrator, click Help > Activate Web Transfer Client. The Registration wizard appears.

  2. Follow the instructions in the wizard or refer to Activating the Software, if necessary.

Hiding the Web Transfer Client Licensing Message

If you do not want to show an error message when all WTC licenses are in use, you can create or edit the referenced style sheet to hide the "error" class, as described in the procedure below.

To hide the error message on the HTML Listing and Upload Form

  1. On EFT Server computer, create a text file using your favorite text editor.

  2. Type or paste the following text into the text file:

    3. .error {

    visibility: hidden;

    display: none;

    }

  3. Name the file efthtmllisting.css and save the file in the EFT Server\Client folder. By default, the path is: C:\Program Files\GlobalSCAPE\EFT Server\Client.

    Users will still see the HTML Listing and Upload form when the WTC licenses are all used, but the error message will not appear.

The style sheet, efthtmllisting.css, is the same one that you can create to change the default background, text, and so on. If you already have created efthtmllisting.css per the instructions in HTML Listing and Upload Form, simply add the above text to the style sheet.