Overview
ActiveTransfer users are My webMethods Server users who have an ActiveTransfer profile. The ActiveTransfer profile contains all of the settings required for users to log in to ActiveTransfer Server to transfer files and perform other ActiveTransfer tasks.
You can create an ActiveTransfer profile for a user in two ways:
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If the user is already defined as a
My webMethods Server user, either by way of the internal
My webMethods Server system directory service or through an external directory service such as LDAP, you create an
ActiveTransfer profile for the user by associating the user with
ActiveTransfer. For details, see
Associating an Existing
My webMethods Server User with
ActiveTransfer .
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If the user is not already defined as a
My webMethods Server user, you can create the user in the
My webMethods Server system directory and define an
ActiveTransfer profile for the user at the same time. For details, see
Creating a New User.