FTPing with CuteFTP.

WinSCP is an FTP, SFTP and SCP Client that many of our customers use, our company does not support this software or have any direct ties to the manufacture of this software. Per the request of many of our Clients we have constructed this guide to aid in how to connect WinSCP to your domains FTP.

After you have downloaded and installed WinSCP you should have an icon on your desktop that lets you start WinSCP double click that icon and the first screen you will be presented should look like the image below. in our image here we have highlighted the first change you will need to make to connect to the FTP, in the Protocol Box under File protocol change the drop down box from reading SFTP to FTP
 

After you have made this change the window should change some, bellow is the changed window with the next fields we need to fill in highlighted.

At this point you need to enter your Domain name into the field that says Host name (highlighted in red) for example: ftp.mydomain.com then you will need to enter the User Name to log into your FTP(highlighted in Blue). This is normally your domain name without the extension on the end, so if you domain name is mydomain.com then the normal ftp username would be mydomain; lastly you must enter the password, in the password field(highlighted in Black) this password may have been set by you or has been emailed to you when you setup your account with us.

With these fields now inputed, Click the Save button in the lower right corner next to the Close button. you will then be prompted with a window named Warning (see image below)
 

In the image above we have highlighted in Red the OK button, click OK on this window.
 

Now you will be presented by another window (depicted in image above) click the OK Button on this windows, again in our image we have highlighted the OK Button in red.
 

You will be returned to the login screen, it has now changed and you are on the Stored Sessions window. on this window, Click the Login Button (highlighted in Red in our image)

After this, WinSCP will login to the FTP account on your server. on Windows XP systems you may get a normal Windows Security Alert about the program (depicted in below image) Click the UnBlock button (highlighted in Red in image) to allow WinSCP to connect to the server as it should.