Managing Connections

Once you have opened you first session and the main window shows, you can open additional session using Session > New Session or respective toolbar button or keyboard shortcut. The Login dialog will show. There you can choose some of your stored sessions or enter the login details manually. To open stored session directly go to Session > Saved Sessions.

The newly opened connection will become active.

Once you have several connections opened you can switch among them. Just go to Session > Opened Sessions. Or you can easily use opened session drop down menu on toolbar or keyboard shortcuts.

By default each opened session remembers its own panel state, including focused file and panel sorting. In Norton Commander interface the local panel remembers also the last used local directory for each session. This behaviour can be turned off for both panels, or for local panel only.

To close connection, while keeping the WinSCP opened, go to Session > Disconnect. When you disconnect the last opened session, the Login dialog will automatically show. You need to use it to open another session. If you close it without opening any, WinSCP will close completely.

Keyboard shortcuts for session management are the same for both interfaces.