SOUTHERN LABEL
COMPANY now offers the benefits of transferring
all your art files to our Art Department via FTP (File
Transfer Protocol).
What is FTP for?
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. FTP software allows
you to copy files from your local computer to your web
site or vice-versa.
When would
you want to use FTP software?
You may want to use FTP Software to upload a Illustrator
file, .jpg, .eps, .pdf or a .tiff file to our
Art Department.
How to use
FTP software:
We recommend the following programs:
FileZilla (FREE)
FileZilla is open source software distributed free of
charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
WS_FTP
CuteFTP
CyberDuck
(Mac OS X)
Do you want
to transfer files securely?
To send sensitive information you can transfer files using
Secure FTP. Secure FTP provides encrypted channels for
transferring files to and from customer Web sites.
How to use
Secure FTP:
The third party applications that we have recommended
above also support the Secure FTP protocol. You may also
use the same FTP Server/Host Address and our FTP user
name and password that you can obtain from our Art
Department.
We recommend the following free program:
FileZilla (FREE): select the "SFTP
- SSH File Transfer Protocol" option.
How to set
upload files using FTP
FTP can be used to upload your files to Southern Label
Company Art Department. There are several different FTP
software packages available, but the more common ones
include FileZilla
(FREE), Fetch
5.5 (MAC), WS_FTP,
CuteFTP
and CyberDuck
(Mac OS X).
Before you begin uploading your files,
you will need to configure your FTP software to work with
Southern Labels Hosting Client. You will need the following
information to configure the FTP client:
* Host Name/Address –
This can be obtain by contacting our Art
Department
* Host type – Always select auto-detect
* Username/UserID – FTP username
which is assigned by the Art Department.
* Password – FTP password which
is assigned by the Art Department.
For instructions setting up your specific
FTP client, please reference the help section of your
FTP Software or their Internet Web sites. We’ve
provided some useful links below:
FileZilla: http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Documentation
CuteFTP: http://help.globalscape.com/help/cuteftp6
WSFTP: http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/
AbsoluteFTP: http://www.vandyke.com
CyberDuck (Mac OS X): http://cyberduck.ch/
Note: If you upload files
that have the same name as files already on the server,
the files on the server will be overwritten.
Files are active as soon as you upload them to our server.
