Ftp Settings Explained (slowly....)
May 16th, 2008

"Click Here To Easily Build Your Niche Website Store"

The profile name can be anything that you choose, as all that this is for, is to help you remember to which account the other information applies. If you have lots of sites, it helps to name it in order to differentiate between them

The Host Name/Address is what Portland calls 'FTP Server' 

There is no need to change anything in Host Type as WS_FTP  LE will automatically detect it. After the first instance of use, it will generally change to UNIX

Your User ID and password are exactly the same as your Portland Communications User ID and password. Make sure that you type them in the correct case

There is one more thing to do before you press the 'OK' button. You must ensure that the passive transfer box is ticked. This will avoid any problems of connecting because of a firewall. To find this, you must click on the advanced tab at the top, and tick the Passive Transfers box like in the following diagram:

You can now click OK and it should connect to your web-space. You can look in the text box underneath where it gives a commentary of what is going on and see if there are any errors and what they are

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