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Use the Max Total Connections setting to limit the number of simultaneous connections to your server. Setting this to an appropriate value can enhance performance for users by limiting connections to a manageable level.

Use the Time Out Idle connections check and setting boxes to specify a time period in minutes before an idle connection is automatically disconnected. This frees capacity for new incoming connections if the maximum connection limit has been reached.

Use the Limit Connections Per User controls to limit the number of simultaneous connections from a single remote computer. You can choose to either disconnect existing connections when a user attempts to exceed the limit or to refuse the new incoming connection. Normally disconnecting the older connections is most appropriate.

Select Enable Address Filtering if you would like to filter access to the FTP server depending on the remote client computer’s IP address. This can be useful in limiting access to a trusted set of users, as well as to specifically block specific IP addresses and blocks of IP addresses.

When this option is turned on, the “Ban” command is enabled on the user context menu. IP addresses of banned users are added to the filter list and must be removed via the IP Filtering dialog box to re-enable access.

See IP Address Filtering for more details.

Monitoring user activity

Check “Monitor On by default” to automatically monitor all user activity in the monitor window. Even if the monitor is not set on by default, you can monitor specific users by selecting them in the user pane and selecting “Monitor” from the user context menu.

Check “Record file lists On by default” if you wish to be able to track which files a user has downloaded and uploaded. This list remains in memory during the user session and can be output to the monitor window by selecting “Show file list” from the user context menu.