Configure a Device as SFTP Server

Network Requirements

• Device acts as the SFTP server, PC acts as the SFTP client, and the network between the client and the server is connected.
• On the SFTP server Device, set the user name to admin1 and the password to admin1; the file system directory of Device acts as the root directory of the SFTP server.
• PC acts as the SFTP client to upload and download the file with the SFTP server Device.

Network Topology

Figure 2‑10 Network topology for configuring the device as the SFTP server

Configuration Steps

Step 1: Create VLANs, and add ports to the required VLANs.(Omitted)

Step 2: Configure the IP address of the interface, making the network between PC and Device be connected (omitted).

Step 3: On Device, enable the SFTP service and configure the authorized user name and password.

#On the SFTP server Device, configure the authorized user name and password.

Enable the SSH service on Device (SFTP is one sub module of the SSH protocol.

Step 4: Use PC as the SFTP client to upload and download one file to the SFTP server Device.

#The following takes the Linux system as an example to describe the related process.

#Input the correct IP address and user name, password to log into the SFTP server.

#Get the startup file in the file system of the SFTP server Device.

#After copying the file, you can find the related file in the operated directory.

#Upload the file in PC to the file system of the SFTP server Device.

#After uploading the file, you can find the corresponding file in the file system of Device.

Device(config-fs)#dir
   size           date          time       name
------------     ------        ------    --------
2048             JUN-30-2015  16:35:50   tech