Add ftp server – VBrick Systems ETHERNETV V4.4.3 User Manual

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Global Settings

ETV Portal Server Admin Guide

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e. Allow

Read

and

Write

permissions and click Next.

f.

Click

Finish

when done.

4. In the Portal Server, configure the publishing point

Name

,

Source

, and

FTP Directory

to

match the values you used for the publishing point on the Windows Media server.

Add FTP Server

Figure 6. Add FTP Server

Using Secure FTP

In Portal Server v4.2 or higher, VBrick's FTP client supports secure FTP connections from
the end user (client), Portal Server and NVR to the VOD servers. This is accomplished using
FTP over SSL (FTPS protocol). Having a client that supports FTPS however, is not enough
to have secure FTP connections throughout the system. The FTP servers on all VOD servers
also need to support FTPS for a secure connection to exist. If a secure connection cannot be
established, the client will revert to the standard FTP protocol. The FTP server on Windows
platforms (IIS) does not currently support FTPS. Therefore, to have secure connections, you must
install a third-party add-in on all Windows VOD servers.
Of the various solutions available,
VBrick recommends FTP Guardian. FTP Guardian is a wrapper for IIS that serves as a proxy
between a secure client and an unsecured IIS. You change the FTP port of IIS to an arbitrary

Note • The publishing point name within a server must be unique. You cannot add a

publishing point that already exists in MCS database.

• The publishing point FTP directory within a server must be unique.
• If free space information is available at the time a publishing point is added, it must

be greater than the entered

Low Space Threshold

.

• Publishing points located within another publishing point are not supported

although publishing points on the same drive are supported. For example, two
publishing points with

Source

c:\pub1

and

c:\pub2

are supported but two

publishing points with

Source

c:\pub1

and

c:\pub1\pub2

are not supported.

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