Getting Started with FTP Client Plugin

The FTP Client plugin allows you to connect to and browse FTP servers; copy files and directories from or to FTP servers (also known as download and upload); change access rights (attributes), view files, and delete files and directories on FTP servers. It supports many types of FTP servers (Unix, Microsoft IIS, Netware, VMS, MVS, IBM iSeries/i5 (AS/400), IBM z/VM, etc.), all common proxy servers (firewalls), and compression of data transfers (MODE Z).

On Windows 2000 and later, the plugin also supports FTPS, i.e. FTP-SSL for SSL-encrypted communication. More precisely, it supports the AUTH TLS command. Such variant of FTPS is sometimes called FTPES, i.e. FTP with Explicit SSL. The plugin uses the same certificate stores and validity verification algorithms as Internet Explorer. All trusted certificates can be viewed in the Internet Options Control Panel. FTPS uses OpenSSL libraries, before using FTPS, please download OpenSSL binaries e.g. from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/openssl.htm and extract libssl32.dll and libeay32.dll to Altap Salamander's installation directory.

See File System and Menu Extension sections in Using Plugins for a description of basic work with file system plugin and menu extension.