Connection properties

You can specify connection properties on the Connection tab of a file connection point.

This table shows the transfer protocol independent properties:

Property Description
Transfer Protocol Select one of the supported protocols: Shared Folder, FTP, FTPS or sFTP.
Host Name Specify the host name of the server that hosts the files.
Port Name Specify the port for FTP, FTPS or sFTP transfer protocols. For FTP and FTPS, the default port is 21 and for sFTP, the default port is 22.
User Specify the user name to connect to the file system.
Password Specify the password to connect to the file system.

If you select the type sFTP from Cloud, then the transfer protocol is already selected as ‘sFTP’ and disabled