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Copying Saved FTP Client Connection Settings to Another PC
Technical Note 1261
Last Reviewed 04-Apr-2008
Applies To
Reflection FTP Client version 10.0 through 12.x
Summary
Technical Note 1261
Last Reviewed 04-Apr-2008
Applies To
Reflection FTP Client version 10.0 through 12.x
Summary
The Reflection FTP Client and FTP Neighborhood allow you to save connection settings for your custom FTP sessions. These connection settings are stored in the Windows registry. This technical note explains how to use a software utility to export the connection information from your Windows registry and then import the information to another PC.
The Reflection FTP Client is a component of many Reflection products and suites. For information about Reflection Suites components, see Technical Note 3000.
Note the following:
- Starting in Reflection FTP Client version 9.0, File Import and File Export features were added for saving FTP sites. For information on migrating sites between mixed versions of Reflection FTP, see the FTP sections of Technical Notes 1601 and 1607.
- Starting in Reflection FTP Client version 13.0, FTP sites and settings are saved to FTP client settings files (*.rfw). After upgrading, the first time your run the client, your registry settings are migrated automatically to a settings file.
FTP Client Connection Settings
With Reflection FTP, you can create and save the settings information for your FTP connections. If you have defined multiple connections, you may want to use them on other PCs without having to manually recreate them. Because Reflection stores settings information in the Windows registry, it is possible to export the connection settings from the registry as a file that can be used on another Reflection FTP Client PC.
Note: Reflection FTP client user names and passwords are exported along with the connection information. The passwords are encoded, however, in both the registry and the exported registry file.
Copying Connection Settings to Another PC
The following sections describe how to back up your Windows registry, export the appropriate Reflection FTP registry settings, and then import the settings on another PC.
Backing Up the Windows Registry
Warning: Before you work with the Windows registry, you should back up the registry on your PC.
Use the Windows Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) or another full backup program to back up your Windows registry. For information about the Windows registry, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 256986 at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=
Exporting the FTP Client Registry Settings
To export the registry settings for your Reflection FTP sessions, you can use the Saveftp.exe utility. Follow the steps below to obtain and run the Saveftp utility.
- Download the file, saveftp.zip, from download.attachmate.com, to the PC that has the FTP client registry settings you wish to export.
- Extract and run saveftp.exe. The file Ftpsettings.reg will appear in the directory where saveftp.exe was run. Ftpsettings.reg contains your FTP Client registry settings.
Importing the FTP Client Registry Settings on Other PCs
Follow the steps below to import the saved Ftpsettings.reg file on other PCs.
Note: Before importing the settings, Reflection FTP Client must be already installed on the PCs.
- Copy the Ftpsettings.reg file to a local folder on the PC that you want to update with the saved settings information. If you are updating multiple PCs, you can copy the file to a shared network folder that is accessible to all Reflection FTP Client PCs.
- On each PC that you want to update, close all open Reflection applications, and then open Windows Explorer. Navigate to the folder containing the Ftpsettings.reg file.
Warning: Make sure you have backed up the registry before you import the new settings. Existing registry values that have the same connection names as the ones you are importing will be overwritten when you perform the next step.
- Double-click Ftpsettings.reg to import the registry settings.
If you have multiple user accounts on a single Windows NT machine, you will need to repeat this step after each user logs in.
