Advanced site settings

Each site carries more settings than the Site Manager form shows. Select a site and click Advanced… to open Advanced Site Settings. The page list on the left only contains pages that apply to the site’s protocol. The defaults suit most servers, so change a setting only when you have a reason.

Page	Covers	Shown for
Environment	Line endings, file name encoding, time zone, PuTTY terminal settings	All
Directories	Start directories and directory caching	All
Recycle bin	Keeping deleted or overwritten remote files	All
Encryption	Encrypting files stored on the server	SFTP
SFTP, Shell or SCP/Shell	See SSH, SFTP and SCP settings	SFTP, SCP
FTP	See FTP and FTPS settings	FTP
S3, WebDAV	See WebDAV and S3 settings	S3, WebDAV
Connection	Timeouts, keepalives, IP version	All
Proxy, Tunnel	See Proxies, jump hosts and tunnels	Proxy: all; Tunnel: SFTP, SCP
TLS/SSL	See FTP and FTPS settings	FTPS, WebDAV and S3 with TLS
SSH, Key exchange, Authentication, Bugs	See SSH, SFTP and SCP settings and Authentication	SFTP, SCP
Note	Free text about the site	All

Environment

• End-of-line characters (if not indicated by server): the line ending used for text-mode transfers when the server does not say. Pick LF for Unix-like servers and CR/LF for Windows ones.
• UTF-8 encoding for filenames: leave on Auto unless names with accents come out garbled.
• Time zone offset: shifts remote timestamps by whole hours and quarter hours. Detect automatically works out the offset itself where the protocol allows.
• Daylight saving time: whether remote times follow local DST rules or are adjusted by the current DST difference. Change this only if timestamps are off by exactly one hour for part of the year.
• PuTTY terminal settings: the PuTTY saved session used when you open this site in PuTTY. Edit in PuTTY… appears on Windows only.

Directories

• Remote directory and Local directory set where the panels start. The local one is not used by the Explorer interface.
• Remember last used directory updates these fields each time you disconnect, so the next session picks up where you stopped.
• Synchronize browsing starts the session with browsing of both panels linked.
• Cache visited remote directories speeds up going back to folders you have listed. Cache directory changes, with Permanent cache, also remembers how path changes resolved, across sessions.
• Resolve symbolic links and Follow symbolic links to directories control how links are shown and opened.

Recycle bin

Turn on Preserve deleted remote files to recycle bin to move deleted files into the folder named in Remote recycle bin instead of removing them. With SFTP, Preserve overwritten remote files to recycle bin does the same for files an upload replaces.

Encryption

Encrypt files stores files on an SFTP server in encrypted form. See File encryption.

Connection

• Server response timeout sets how many seconds linscp waits for a reply before it gives up and offers to reconnect.
• Keepalives stop idle connections from being cut by firewalls. For SSH, Sending of null SSH packets costs least. For FTP, linscp can send dummy commands and optionally list the current directory as well. Set the interval in Seconds between keepalives.
• Internet protocol version forces IPv4 or IPv6 instead of Auto.
• Passive mode (FTP) is explained in FTP and FTPS settings.

Note and color

The Note page holds free text, such as who owns the server or when the password expires. The Site Manager shows it under the form. The Color button at the bottom of the dialog tags the site; the color appears in the Site Manager tree and on the session’s tab.

Raw settings

Every site setting also has a raw name, as stored in the configuration file. Choose Edit Raw Settings… from the arrow beside the Site Manager’s Advanced… button to see and change settings by name, including ones no page shows. The same names work in session URLs as x-name=value and on the command line with /rawsettings.