Category Archives: Videos

Online Learning Video: How to Lock File Transfer Clients to a Specific Folder

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In this video, we show you how to lock file transfer clients to a specific folder so they cannot reach any other location when connected to VShell. You’ll learn how to take advantage of the %USER% variable substitution to quickly and easily lock file transfer clients to a folder based on their username.

We also show you how to configure VShell to automatically create users’ folders when they first successfully authenticate.

How to Lock File Transfer Clients to a Specific Folder

You can see more VShell videos on the VShell Video page and on VanDyke Software YouTube Channel.

Online Learning Video: Enabling Trace Options to Display Debugging Information

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Trace Options are extremely useful for troubleshooting connectivity issues.

This video shows how to enable Trace Options to display debugging information about a connection and how to log the information to a file.

How to Use SecureCRT’s Dependent Sessions to Connect to a Jump Host

You can see more SecureCRT videos on the VanDyke Software YouTube Channel.

Online Learning Video: An Overview of the VShell Monitor

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In this video, we give you a quick overview of VShell’s Monitor.

VShell Monitor is a real-time connection monitoring tool that allows an administrator to view active connections to the VShell server. VShell Monitor can be set to start on administrator logon and provides easy access to the VShell Control Panel and Help.

An Overview of the VShell Monitor

You can see more VShell videos on the VanDyke Software YouTube Channel.

Online Learning Video: Using SecureCRT’s Dependent Sessions to Connect to a Jump Host

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A common networking problem is needing to reach certain host machines that can only be connected to from a jump host or a bastion server.

If your jump host or bastion server is an SSH2 server that supports port forwarding, SecureCRT’s dependent session feature makes it easy to reach those secondary hosts behind the bastion server.

This video shows you how to set up SecureCRT dependent sessions to make these types of connections.

How to Use SecureCRT’s Dependent Sessions to Connect to a Jump Host

You can see more SecureCRT videos on the VanDyke Software YouTube Channel.