Getting Started - Initial Setup Wizard
The Wizard
Step 1 - Licensing
The Getting Started Wizard will appear when Cerberus starts up for the first time. The initial screen will allow the user to select the licensing option most appropriate for their intended use of Cerberus. Selecting the "Personal use" option immediately causes Cerberus to function as the Personal edition. This means that the message "For personal use only" and "UNREGISTERED" will appear in the welcome message that Cerberus sends every time a client connects. In all other respects, Cerberus FTP Server Personal edition is functionally equivalent to the registered version.
Selecting As a Company, Government entity, or Educational institution enables a 30 day trial period of the Professional version of Cerberus FTP Server. No “UNREGISTERED” message is added to the welcome greeting and all of the Professional edition features are enabled. Cerberus reverts to the Personal edition after the evaluation period expires and a message indicating that the server is unregistered will be added to the server welcome message for each connection. At anytime, including after the trial period has expired or if "For personal use" was selected at startup, Cerberus may be turned into the full commercial Personal, Standard, or Professional edition by entering a valid registration code into the License Manager.
Step 2 - Initial User Creation
By default, an "anonymous" user will be created under the User Manager. The default anonymous user will have download and upload-only access to the "c:\ftproot" directory as their root drive. This directory will be created if it does not already exist. Leaving the defaults checked creates the standard anonymous user for Cerberus FTP Server. Please note, the default settings for the anonymous user allow anyone to connect to your FTP server, without specifying a password. Using the default settings, anyone can view and download any file from your "C:\ftproot" directory and any subdirectories of that directory. To disallow anonymous access to Cerberus FTP Server, uncheck the "Create Initial user" box and the anonymous user will not be added.
To further customize the added user, or to manage additional users, go to the User Manager after the "Getting Started" wizard has finished.
Step 3 - Network Setup
A dialog prompt will ask whether you want to automatically attempt to detect the WAN IP address. The WAN or external IP address is the IP address you present to the Internet. This is often a different IP address than you have on your local computer and the external IP address is usually assigned to your router. You should normally say "yes" here. This will instruct Cerberus to automatically attempt to use the correct external IP address when clients attempt passive FTP connections.
Step 4 - Security
Cerberus FTP Server fully supports TLSv1/SSLv3 encryption over FTP (FTPS) and SSH SFTP. To enable FTPS and SSH SFTP support, a certificate must be generated for the server. The Self-Signed Certificate creation process will provide a certificate that Cerberus can use to allow secure connections and file transfers.
Make sure the Enable TLS/SSL check box is checked and the Self Signed Certificate information is filled out, and then press the finish button. A dialog box will popup indicating that a certificate was successfully created. Cerberus can now accept secure SSL connections from compatible FTP clients.
