While SSL/TLS security configuration for the FTPS protocol is entirely self-contained, Syncplify.me Server!’s Web/REST service relies on Windows’ HTTP.SYS subsystem, which is the same subsystem IIS is based on, and therefore its security configuration has to be made at operating system level.
In order to ease the process we recommend Natarc’s IISCrypto, a free and powerful utility that helps achieving the task with just a few mouse clicks. Continue reading
The most significant improvement introduced by Syncplify.me Server! v4.1 is the ability to use MongoDB’s authentication. As explained in a previous KB article, our deployment of MongoDB was secure even without authentication, but keeping in mind all possible scenarios our development team has worked hard to add direct support to MongoDB’s native authentication into our software. This article explains how to use the new MongoDB Authentication Utility (installed along with Syncplify.me Server! v4.1+) to enable/disable this feature as needed.
The procedures outlined in this article are suitable for all single-node Syncplify.me Server! deployments. High-Availability (HA) deployments will require a little more work. Continue reading
If you already own an X.509 (SSL/TLS) digital certificate in PFX format, you know how simple it is to import it into your Syncplify.me Server! and use it.
But many of our customers asked for a tutorial on the longer procedure of requesting a digital certificate to a certification authority (CA) via a certificate signing request (CSR). So here’s the fully documented procedure for you.
First of all you have to generate the CSR, and to do that you will simply go to the Security->FTP(E/S) menu and select the option in the picture below from the certificate drop-down menu: Continue reading
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In light of the recent news regarding ransomware targeting MongoDB, we would like to inform all of our users and customers that we are actively working to add support for MongoDB’s authentication directly inside our software.
In the meantime, though, it is very important to understand that:
Because of the above reasons we believe that all Syncplify.me Server! instances deployed in non-HA mode are safe unless the network and Windows Firewall configuration has been altered by the users/customers themselves.
For HA (high-availability) instances, we do strongly recommend our users/customers to make sure their network firewall and Windows Firewall rules only allow connections to the DB server(s) from the machines running the SFTP front-end nodes. No other machine should be allowed to connect to your DB server(s).
This said, we want to reassure everyone – once again – that we are also actively working (with high priority) to add MongoDB authentication directly into our software.
Many of our users are asking how to add multiple user accounts to Syncplify.me Server! at once. Most of them already have a CSV (comma-separated value) text file with username and passwords of the user profiles to be added, so it would make a lot of sense for them to have a simple procedure to import such users from the existing CVS file. You can actually do that very easily by writing a tiny PowerShell script that internally calls our SMSCLI (Syncplify.me Server! Command-Line Interface), and this article shows one way to do so.
The first step is to make sure that we know what VFS these imported users will be using as their “home directory”. For the sake of this example (and to keep it as easy as possible) we will use a parametric VFS like the one shown in the image here below: Continue reading
Version 4.x of Syncplify.me Server! introduced a remarkable amount of new features, and improved some of the existing ones greatly. The latter is the case of high availability deployments, which have been rendered much easier and a lot more powerful.
This article explains one way (not the only possible one) to install and deploy a highly available multi-node Syncplify.me Server! in your network.
First of all, let’s prepare 3 virtual machines:
Monitoring a directory for certain files, and as soon as they become available (someone puts them in that directory) upload them somewhere else and then move the original files to a different location (archive) on the local disk. This is one of the most common questions from our FTP Script! users.
For such reason we have prepared the sample script below. It will probably fit the most common cases, and it’s a decent learning tool as well as starting point to create your own (more complex) scripts to accomplish your very own particular task. Continue reading
As of version 4.0.24, Syncplify.me Server! has introduced two new features:
These features can be used together to hide certain files from a directory listing. This is useful, for example, when you don’t want certain users to see certain file types when they connect to your SFTP server, but you still want to show such files to other users.
The first thing to do is creating a script. Let’s assume, for the sake of this example, that you want to hide some AutoCAD® files, and specifically all DWG and DXF files. Then you will need a script like this:
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begin RemoveFromDirList('*.dwg'); RemoveFromDirList('*.dxf'); end. |
Once the script is ready, you will have to open the user profile you want to apply the rule to, and add an event handler to it, like this: Continue reading
As of version 4.0, Syncplify.me Server! has introduced storage access via VFS (Virtual File System). This new storage virtualization layer allows an administrator to choose among different ways to access the underlying file system; one of them, that encrypts/decrypts data at-rest on the fly, is the DiskAES256 VFS.
When a VFS is of DiskAES256 type, all files uploaded to that VFS will be encrypted and then saved to disk. Similarly, when an SFTP client downloads them, the files will be read from disk and decrypted on-the-fly before they are sent to the client over the network (don’t worry SSH/SFTP network encryption still applies).
So, because of the way it works, as described here above, when you create a new VFS of type DiskAES256 you have to make sure it points to an empty path/directory (that has no files in it). Otherwise it would try to decrypt existing files that are not encrypted in the first place, and fail. Continue reading
