Advanced Server Settings

Servers List

By default, any settings changed in Advanced Server Settings, will apply to ALL server connections.

  • Default is the selected “server” from the Servers list.
Transmit Advanced Server Settings

Add a new Server

  • Adding a server
    To add a server where changing the settings will only apply to the specific server:
  1. Click the + plus button on the bottom-left.
  2. Replace ftp.domain.com with the address for your server.
  • To remove a server
    Select the server from the list to be removed and press the - minus button on the bottom-left.

Adding a new server for Advanced Server Settings

Server Type

If you know the specific software package your server uses, you can choose it here.
(This can be helpful if Transmit is misbehaving with your server).

Server options

  • AppleSharelP
  • BSD44
  • Connect:Enterprise
  • DiskXtender
  • DriveHQ
  • FileZilla
  • Generic
  • Hummingbird
  • lukemftpd
  • Netware
  • OS/400
  • Personal FTP Server PRO
  • Peter’s Server
  • SnapOS
  • TCPware VMS Unix
  • TViX
  • UNIX
  • VMS
  • WarFTPd
  • WebStar
  • WebStar UNIX
  • Windows IIS
  • Yahoo! Small Business


List Spacing

Does your server use one space or two spaces to separate columns in file listings?

  • List Spacing Options
    Default
    One Space
    Two Space
    One or Two Spaces

Text Encoding

The text encoding used for file listings.

  • Western (ISO Latin 1)
  • Western (Mac OS Roman)

  • Unicode (UTF-8)

  • Japanese (Shift JIS)
  • Japanese (ISO 2022-JP)
  • Japanese (EUC)
  • Japanese (Shift JIS X0213)

  • Traditional Chinese (Big 5)
  • Traditional Chinese (Big 5 HKSCS)
  • Traditional Chinese (Windows, DOS)

  • Korean (ISO 2022-KR)
  • Korean (Mac OS)
  • Korean (Windows, DOS)

  • Arabic (ISO 8859-6)
  • Arabic (Windows)

  • Hebrew (ISO 8859-8)
  • Hebrew (Windows)

  • Greek (ISO 8859-7)
  • Greek (Windows)

  • Cyrillic (ISO 8859-5)
  • Cyrillic (Mac OS)
  • Cyrillic (KO18-R)
  • Cyrillic (Windows)
  • Ukrainian (KO18-U)

  • Thai (Windows, DOS)

  • Simplified Chinese (GB 2312)
  • Simplified Chinese (HZ GB 2312)
  • Chinese (GB 18030)

  • Central European (ISO Latin 2)
  • Central European (Mac OS)
  • Central European (Windows Latin 2)

  • Vietnamese (Windows)

  • Turkish (ISO Latin 5)
  • Turkish (Windows Latin 5)

  • Central European (ISO Latin 4)
  • Baltic (Windows)


Text Composition

The normalization format of unicode text.

  • UTF-8 NFC
    Linux and Windows-based servers use NFC

  • UTF-8 NFD
    While OS X-based servers use NFD.

Read more about unicode normalization formats.


TLS

The version of TLS to use is dependent on what version is being used by your server.

By default, Transmit uses TLS version 1.2.

  • Select which version of TLS to use
    1.3
    1.2
    1.1

Network

Limit Server Connections

Limit server to __ connections
Check to turn on and enter the number of simultaneous connections to use for your Server.

The number of allowed simultaneous connections is determined by the server.

We recommend checking with your hosting provider or systems administrator to see if there’s a limit > and if settings can be changed.


Connect Timeout

Configure how long Transmit will wait for the server to respond to a connection attempt.


Busy Retry

Configure how long Transmit will wait between retries in the event your server is busy.


Advanced

Preserve Modification Dates
when enabled, Transmit will attempt to reset the modification date of an uploaded file to match the local modified date.


Don’t preserve seconds (FTP only)


Check for editing conflicts


Tickle server during long transfers
Periodically end a command to keep the control connection alive while waiting for a transfer on the data connection to finish.


Use FEAT command
When enabled, send the FEAT command when connecting to find out which extensions the server supports.


Use MLST command
When enabled and If available on the server, use the MLST extension for detailed/standardized file listings.


Use CCC command
When enabled, a connection made via FTP with TLS/SSL will revert to plaintext after a secure connection is established.


Use PRET command

This article was last updated on July 30, 2025