System requirements

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WS_FTP Server requires:

• An Intel Pentium® 4, 1 GHz or higher (or an equivalent processor)
• 512 MB RAM minimum
• 250 MB of drive space
• NTFS formatted drive
• TCP/IP enabled network interface card (NIC)
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional SP2 or later, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4 or later, or Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
• Microsoft Data Access Component (MDAC) 2.80 or later
• Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1 or later
• Microsoft Windows Script Host 5.6 or later
• Broadband connection to the Internet (recommended)

If you plan to use Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) as your web server (instead of WS_FTP's Web Server), you will need to use Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 or later.

If you plan to use Microsoft SQL Server, you must use one of the following versions: Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express.

Ipswitch Notification Server requires:

All requirements for WS_FTP Server, plus:

• Broadband or dial-up connection to the Internet (required for email notifications outside of the local area network)
• Modem and phone line (required for pager and SMS notifications)

WS_FTP Server Manager requires:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 or later, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or later, Netscape Navigator (or other Web browser that is CSS2 and HTML 4.01 compliant)
• Enabled Javascript support in the Web browser
• Enabled Cookie support in the Web browser