Grass Valley K2 System Guide v.7.2 - Manual (Page 55)

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FTP security
If you are managing transfers with this scheme from a Windows operating system
computer, you should disable the Windows firewall on that computer. Otherwise,
FTP transfers can fail because the Windows firewall detects FTP commands and can
switch the IP addresses in the commands.
NOTE: You should disable the Windows firewall on non-K2 systems issuing passive
FTP transfer commands.
FTP security
Refer to “FTP and media access security” on page 163 .
FTP internationalization
The K2 FTP interface supports clip and bin names in non-English locales
(international languages) as follows:
• Non-ASCII localized characters represented as UTF-8 characters.
• All FTP client/server commands are in ASCII.
• The named movie asset is Unicode 16-bit characters
• The K2 FTP client converts between Unicode and UTF-8 strings explicitly.
Also refer to “Internationalization” on page 214 .
The Microsoft FTP client does not convert from a Unicode string to a UTF-8 string.
Instead, it passes the Unicode string to the FTP server directly, which can cause
errors. To avoid these errors, in the FTP command, every reference to the clip path
must be in UTF-8.
A specific language setting is required on the computer that hosts the K2 FTP
interface. This requirement applies to a K2 Media Server, K2 Solo Media Server, and
a stand-alone K2 client, as they all host the K2 FTP interface.
To make this language setting, do the following:
1. If you have not already done so, disable the write filter. Refer to “Disabling the
write filter” on page 156 .
2. Open the Regional and Language Options control panel.