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<gui>Connect to Server</gui></guiseq>.</p></item>
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If a username is required, it is inserted before the server name:</p>
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<p><sys>scheme://username@servername.example.com/folder</sys></p>
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<p>You can connect to different types of servers. Some servers
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<p>You can connect to different types of servers. Some servers are public,
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access through SSH. Some servers, however, still allow or require
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you to use FTP to upload or download files. FTP sites with logins
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