H3C Technologies H3C S7500E Series Switches - Manual (Page 98)

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Table 6-1 Configuration when the device serves as the FTP client
Device Configuration Remarks
Device (FTP client)
Use the ftp command to establish the
connection to the remote FTP server
If the remote FTP server supports
anonymous FTP, the device can log in to it
directly; if not, the device must obtain the FTP
username and password first to log in to the
remote FTP server.
PC (FTP server)
Enable FTP server on the PC, and
configure the username, password,
user privilege level, and so on.
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When the device serves as the FTP server, you need to perform the following configuration:
Table 6-2 Configuration when the device serves as the FTP server
Device Configuration Remarks
Enable the FTP server function
Disabled by default.
You can use the display ftp-server command to view
the FTP server configuration on the device.
Configure authentication and
authorization
Configure the username, password, authorized working
directory for an FTP user.
The device does not support anonymous FTP for
security reasons. Therefore, you must use a valid
username and password. By default, authenticated
users can access the root directory of the device.
Device (FTP
server)
Configure the FTP server
operating parameters
Parameters such as the FTP connection timeout time
PC (FTP client)
Use the FTP client program to
log in to the FTP server.
You can log in to the FTP server only after you input the
correct FTP username and password.
z Make sure that the FTP server and the FTP client are reachable to each other before establishing
the FTP connection; otherwise the connection fails.
z When you use IE to log in to the device serving as the FTP server, part of the FTP functions is not
available. This is because multiple connections are established during the login process but the
device supports only one connection at a time.