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Protocol Tab on the Transfer Settings Dialog Box (VT)

How do I get to this dialog box?

  • Open the Transfer Settings dialog box.

    The steps depend on your user interface mode.

    User Interface Mode Steps
    Ribbon On the Session tab, from the Transfer group, click the Transfer Settings launcher:
    Classic or Classic MDI On the Tools menu, choose Transfer File. Then, in the Transfer dialog box, click the Settings button.
    Reflection Browser On the Reflection menu, choose Tools and then File Transfer. In the Transfer dialog box, click the Settings button.

The protocol you select determines which preset configurations are available. Also, the tabs available from the Transfer Settings dialog box change to enable you to configure transfers using the selected protocol.

Option Description
Protocol Select the file transfer protocol you want to use. For information about the protocols, see the Transfer Protocols topic.
Preset configurations Selecting an item from this list adjusts the appropriate values automatically in the Transfer Settings dialog box for that specific environment. To see which values will change, select a preset configuration name and click View.
To use the values you already have defined in Reflection (in the Transfer Settings dialog box and elsewhere), click Current Configuration. After doing so, the View button becomes unavailable.
View Click to open the View File Transfer Presets dialog box, from which you can see the predefined settings for the currently selected preset configuration.

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