Hi, super newbie question; for a project we need to receive some files and our partner will be using Sterling File Gateway. Is there a way the product can put the files in a file share? Do I need to have an SFT server?

Thanks

Hi Gabriel,

You customer might not be able to access your File Share, so their SFG/Sterling File Gateway can't send files there. If you have S/FTP server, they might push files to it. Also, they might able to give you web portal called - myFileGateway where you can upload and download files.

The latest version includes adapters for Sharepoint and Cloud Object Storage so there might be options there but typically an external partner won't be able to connect to your file shares (assuming an in-house CIFS/SMB or NFS share which you generally wouldn't want to be exposing to the internet anyway). Otherwise SFG can hold the file for you to collect using an SFTP client or possibly via the web portal if your partner is willing to open that up to the internet, or you could look at deploying a Connect:Direct instance on premise which SFG could push the files to with Connect:Direct writing the files to your file share.

Hi Gabriel,

Is the partner, an internal partner or an external partner.  If external; they won't have access to your file share as that would be a huge security no no.  If internal; then its possible to develop a custom protocol to deliver the files to the file share.  There are two ways - one, either mount the file share on the Sterling File Gateway server and then use the File System Adapter in the custom protocol.  Secondly, we have used a third party SMB3 library in a custom Java Task to deliver to remote file shares without the need of mounting it.

Regards