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How to Use Windows SMB Share As Network Storage | JSCAPE

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

When a user uploads files via FTP/S, SFTP, HTTP/S, or any supported file transfer protocol to JSCAPE MFT Server, those files don't have to be stored on the same machine as that server. Instead, you can have those files redirected to a variety of network storage options like a remote SFTP service, Amazon S3, Dropbox and several others. In this post we're going to show you how to store uploaded files to a remote Windows SMB share.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials, SFTP

How To Schedule an AS2 File Transfer

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

In a previous post on automated AS2 file transfers, we showed you how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server so that it would monitor a directory for newly added files and then, each time a new file is detected, transmit that file to an AS2 trading partner. Today, we're going to try something different. We're going to set up JSCAPE MFT Server to carry out an AS2 transmission on a pre-defined schedule.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Triggers, AS2

How to Test SFTP Connectivity to Remote Hosts | JSCAPE

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Let's say you're trying to connect with a remote SFTP host, perhaps one of your own SFTP servers or one owned by one of your trading partners. While there are tools like nmap and netstat that you can use to test SFTP connectivity, you can also use JSCAPE MFT Monitor.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Videos, Tutorials, SFTP

How To Create A Client Certificate

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

In this post, we show you how to configure a client certificate and how to simplify certificate management.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Secure File Transfer, Client Certificate Authentication

How to Enable an AFTP Service in Your Server | JSCAPE

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

JSCAPE's Accelerated File Transfer Protocol or AFTP service is the perfect solution for organizations looking to achieve high speeds in file transfers suffering from poor network conditions like high latency and packet loss. In this post, we're going to show you how easy it is to enable the AFTP service in your JSCAPE MFT Server instance.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials, Accelerated File Transfer

JSCAPE Releases the File Transfer Command Line (FTCL) 2.5

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

JSCAPE, the leader in platform and protocol independent managed file transfer solutions, is pleased to announce the latest release of File Transfer Command Line (FTCL), version 2.5.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT

How to Move Downloaded Files on a Trading Partner | JSCAPE

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Let's say a trading partner wants you to move files you download from their server to a designated archive folder on that same server. This is a B2B file transfer, so it has to be automated. Here's what you can do to achieve that using JSCAPE MFT Server.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Videos, Tutorials, Triggers

Don't Pair Regex Trigger Actions With A Directory Monitor Event

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

When sever admins pair regex-type trigger actions (e.g. Trading Partner Regex File Upload) with a directory monitor event (e.g. Directory Monitor File Added) on JSCAPE MFT Server, the usual intention is to apply the action on the file(s) that was/were detected by the directory monitor. If so, this course of action (pun intended) isn't the right way to do it.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation

How to Ignore Specific Errors in Exception Handling | JSCAPE

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

In a previous post, we taught you how to set up triggers that catch and handle trigger errors thrown by other triggers. Now, earlier this week, we received a query from a customer who had this kind of trigger but wanted to ignore a particular trigger event. That is, they didn't want their error handling trigger to execute its succeeding action(s) if the error thrown was a certain type of error. Here's one way to do it.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials, Triggers

What Is The Standard Server Port For AS2? | JSCAPE

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

The AS2 protocol has no standard port per se. However, since it runs over HTTP or HTTPS, people who use AS2 also use the standard ports of those protocols by default.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, AS2

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