Getting Started

To get started with the File Transfer Appliance, please follow these steps.

For the File Transfer Appliance to work, it needs to be reachable from the Internet. The following diagram outlines an example deployment

During setup, you will need to provide the following details (examples in italic)

• IP Address: 10.0.2.10
• Netmask: 255.255.255.0
• Default Gateway: 10.0.2.1
• DNS Server: 208.67.222.222

If the File Transfer Appliance is being deployed behind a Firewall, please see the Network & Firewall configuration for further details.

Download the OVF version of the Filetransfer appliance and use the VMware Infrastructure client to import the OVF file into the VMware ESX(i) server.

With VMware Server 2, you have three options

1. Download the OVF version of the Filetransfer appliance and use the VMware Infrastructure client to import the OVF file into the VMware Server.
2. Unzip the VMDK version of the Filetransfer appliance into your VMware Server appliance directory. It will then be found just there.
3. Use the VMware Converter to copy either the OVF or the VMDK format of the Filetransfer appliance into the VMware Server.

Download the VMDK Version of the Filetransfer appliance, unzip the contents into your VMware Workstation/Fusion directory and doubleclick on the .vmx file.

This is how the console will look when the Filetransfer appliance boots for the first time.

When the machine first boots, look at the console to see it's IP address. If a DHCP server is available, it will get an IP address from DHCP. If not, it will set it's IP address to 192.168.0.1.

In this example, the appliance has received an ip address of 192.168.0.60, and you're given the opportunity to change to something else. Until the Getting Started Setup has completed, you will continue to be prompted to set an ip address. Once the Getting Started Setup has completed, this dialog will disappear.

Point your browser to the URL that is listed in the console. A Getting Started Setup will commence where the following thing will be gone through:

Setting the hostname

Setting the Time and the Time Zone

Setting the Network Configuration details

Setting the outgoing email configuration

Create an Admin User

When you have completed these steps. You can login and start sending your first files.

When you login to the File Transfer Appliance, you will be greeted by this send page

Here you need to fill out a few things

1. The recipient email address
2. The subject of the email that will be sent to the recipient
3. You have to upload the files you want to send
4. Write a message that will be included in the body of the email
5. Hit Send

Everything is ready to send the first file, hit send and the recipient will get the email with the download link.

Uploading the file

This is what the email looked like when it was opened by the recipient. Clicking on the link opens up the recipients default web browser and this page will be shown.

Here the file can be downloaded, and since everything is over https, it secure all the way.

Now when you've completed the first step and sent the first file. The next step would be to invite a couple of other people and extend the test to them.

When you've determined that this will indeed replace your current solution, the next step is to purchase a license from http://www.allardsoft.com/store and put this in production.