Product Overview

FTP-Stream Business Edition provides fast file transfer and storage so you can share files with customers or colleagues using any web browser or FTP software. You manage your site on the FTP-Stream control panel and access your online storage using: The Navigator (a unique and brandable web page); The Widget (embed file transfer into any web page), or using FTP software.

One Time Site Setup

On completion of the site purchase you fill out the site setup form:

• Hostname – Choose the address for your site within the ftp-stream.com domain. For example, if you are The Acme Corporation" you may want to choose acme. Your site would then be available at http://acme.ftpdtream.com. You may also want to use a site name within your domain such as ftp.acme.com. See LINK for instructions.
• Server Center – Choose a server center for your site from the option list. The US and UK server centres provide fast connections worldwide. Choose Hong Kong for best connections to mainland China.
• Admin Password – Enter a password for the special site login admin. See Logins below for more details on the admin login.

Site Management on The Control Panel

Logins

To upload or download files you need to login to your FTP-Stream site. You add and manage logins on the control panel, click the Logins tab. Your site has one permanent login admin. This is the special login you keep for yourself as it has rights to see into and transfer files from and to all your customer folders.

Adding Customer Logins
Click on the Add button to create a customer login – the number you are able to create depends on the FTP-Stream plan you purchased. For each login you set the following:

• Login name – a short name which you enter in all lower case which you will give to your customer along with their password.
• Home folder – assign each login a home folder – they are jailed to that home folder when they login. That means that you can upload files for Customer A and they will never be seen by Customer B.
• Password – set the password for this login
• Expiry – set an expriy for this login or leave the default (never expire).
• Active – Uncheck to set the login as inactive.

The FTP and FTPS Tab
On this tab allow or disallow login using FTP and FTPS and set the access rights using these protocols. FTPS is only available if this service is subscribed to the Encryption module.

For most applications leave "Deny FTP file listing" unchecked.

The SFTP Tab
On this tab allow or disallow login using the SFTP protocol and set the access rights for SFTP. SFTP is only available if this service is subscribed to the Encryption module.