© Copyright Robert Vasvari, 1993-2003.
UNIX/SFTP Site Preferences
The preferences in RBrowser have two levels:
global and site specific
settings.
Site Preferences apply to a single site only.
This panel is different for each connection protocol. Below is
the panel for the UNIX and SFTP protocols. Some options are only
available for the UNIX protocol. Use the RBrowser/Site
Preferences (<COMAND>-) menu to bring up the
Preferences Panel.
Site Preferences can be used on a site even
if it is not open. If the site is not open the new settings will
be saved in the preferences file and used next time the site is
connected to. If you want to edit these preferences before you
ever log in, use the "Site Preferences" button on the
login panel.
General Tab:
Character Encoding:
You can tell RBrowser which character encoding the remote host
uses. This could help the browser to correctly display characters
in the upper ASCII set (e.g. ¥ or ª, etc.) which are
used in a lot of languages and interpreted differently on various
hosts. The default is UTF-8.
Load Home Directory Only:
This option can be set on an unopened sites. If set, RBrowser
will load only the home folder and its subfolders. If you are not
interested in browsing the entire machine, this is a quick way to
get to your files. Default is OFF.
Open at Startup:
As a convenience, some sites can be auto started when RBrowser
starts up. Use this option for sites you always need.
Limits Tab:
Maximum Connections:
This is the maximum number of open connections RBrowser will hold
simultaneously to the remote site. Holding multiple connections
speeds up folder loads and virtually all other operations.
Maximum Persistent Connections:
RBrowser will keep some of the above mentioned connections open.
This speeds up access to the remote site, since connections will
not have to be opened every time the File Viewer is touched.
Connection Inactivity Timeout:
Persistent connections will be terminated after the time period
specified in this preference if there is no activity. This is
necessary to save network resources. If the connections time out,
RBrowser will reconnect automatically at any subsequent activity.
Permissions for New Empty Files:
Files created on the remote host with the File/New Empty File command
will get these permissions. Entry should be in the 0655 or rwxr-xr-x
format.
Options Tab:
Remote Shell:
(Available for UNIX protocol only) If the UNIX protocol
is used to connect to the remote host, RBrowser is actually
talking to a shell on the remote machine. You are encouraged to
use a shell that is eight bit clean (like ksh, zsh) so
international character support will work correctly. RBrowser
will search the remote host for shells in the following order:
"zsh","ksh","jsh","sh","bash".
RBrowser MUST find one of these, otherwise the UNIX protocol
cannot be used.
Shell Search Path:
(Available for UNIX protocol only) If the UNIX protocol
is used to connect to the remote host, RBrowser makes heavy use
of the standard UNIX utilities, such as cp, mv, gzip, chmod, etc.
By default, RBrowser uses the most standard implementations of
these utilities. The fields in Program Paths allow you to make
your connection to use more up-to-date versions of these
utilities, for instance the ones in /usr/5bin that is available
on SunOS and Solaris. It is encouraged to use a shell that is
eight bit (like ksh, zsh) so international character support will
work correctly. However, these shells are not always available.
This path definition is in the following format:
fullpath1:fullpath2:...:fullPathn:
If you edit it, make sure to include the ':' separators.
Rexec/SFTP Port:
If you want to specify a custom port on the remote host to
connect to, use this field.
Set:
Saves the new preference settings. Also, all entries are verified
(the remote shell must exist, etc...).
Cancel:
Keep the old settings.
Delete Preferences:
Upon any successful login the preferences files are saved. These
files will show up under the Remote/Site Preferences menu. If
the preferences were called up on an unopened site, this button
will erase the file and remove it from the preferences list.
Preferences files can be found in ~/Library/Application
Support/RBrowser/.
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