Starting and Stopping the Server

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

To start or stop the Server with the Administrator

  1. In the Administrator, connect to the server, then click the Server tab.

  2. On the main menu, click Edit, then click Service Applet Settings. The Transfer Engine Service Settings dialog box appears.

  3. Click Start service (or Stop service) and close the Transfer Engine Service Settings dialog box.

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

To start or stop the server using the Services option in the Control Panel

  1. Open the Windows Services dialog box.

  2. In the Name column, click GlobalSCAPE Secure FTP Server or GlobalSCAPE Secure FTP Server (FIPS), then right-click it and click Start (or Stop).

To start or stop the server from the command line

  1. Click Start, then click Run.

  2. Enter cmd or command.

  3. Click OK.

  4. To start the Server, at the prompt type:

Net start "globalscape secure ftp server"

(Include the quotation marks.)

  1. To stop the Server, at the prompt type:

Net stop "globalscape secure ftp server"

(Include the quotation marks.)

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

Any time you run a server, you expose your computer to outside users. There is the potential for exposing files and programs on your computer and network to malicious outside users, particularly if the 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 the Server and then limiting folder access through the Server's user account permissions. This establishes a stopgap until server/system integrity can be restored if the Server is ever compromised.

To configure the server to run securely

  1. Create a user account for the server

  2. Assign permissions to this user account

  3. Assign the server to the account

  4. Log the server on as a service

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