First you must start an interactive login session but you must start it from a command window or from the Start/Run menu item.
For the sake of example, assume that you want to start an ftp session with hp866b. From the Run item or the command window type:
ttssh /ssh-L21:hp866b.lanl.gov:21 hp866b.lanl.govTTSSH will start up normally and automatically connect you to hp866b. You will be asked for your name and password as usual.
At this point you are ready to start your FTP session. To use WS-FTP, you need to follow some instructions. Please click the link below to jump to the page that describes using ftp with F-Secure. Scroll down about halfway to the paragram that starts with "The next step is to configure the FTP client." Follow the instructions containted there.
If you want to use the command line ftp, you just need to type:
C:\> ftp localhostNote that it looks like you are opening an ftp session to yourself, not hp866b. But what happens is that you are opening a special session to your own machine at which point TTSSH takes over and transfers the connection over to hp866b. But this forwarded connection is encrypted! So your password can safely be sent because it is traveling across this encrypted connection.
After you issue the ftp command, you will get a response from the hp866b ftp server that should look familiar (with the oddity of dual name descriptions):
Connected to localhost. 220 hp866b.lanl.gov FTP server (SunOS 5.6) ready. Name (p2hp2:username):Enter your name and password as usual.