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osxisfun · Apr 24, 2003, 01:28 PM

Hi.

I own transmit panic 2.3. I am running it on a 10.2.4 machine. i am using it to FTP over SSH to another one of my machines (remote location, 10.2.4)

i want to ask you if this affects anyone else before i approach them as they said they could not reproduce this...

after a peroid of inactivity ( 10 minutes?) will your transmit connection "hang" meaning if you try to switch dirs or upload a file.. the transmit window will "hang" and you have to close it and reconnect?

this also happens with my ssh sessions and since i am connecting to FTP over ssh i wonder if that is the problem...

ideas?

this has to be affecting every single person connect to a OSX ftp server or ssh?

is there a command i can send to "tickle' the server to keep it open?

maybe then panic can add this to transmit...

thanks

DeathMan · Apr 24, 2003, 10:03 PM

your ssh daemon is probably shutting down the connection after innactivity. Are you connecting to a Mac OS X sshd? Mine shuts down probably around 10 or 15 minutes. Always sooner than I'd like. Of course I'm too lazy to figure out how to change that, but macosxhints.com surely has some hint on there about that.

graveguy · Apr 24, 2003, 11:29 PM

I'm not having this problem, but I suspect DeathMan's sugggestions are accurate.

Since Transmit users might already be reading this thread, I'm actually having a different problem with Transmit and I wonder if anyone else is having it, too...I purchased Transmit exlusively to do secure SFTP editing of remote documents in BBEdit...when it works, it is absolutely great...better than BBEdits built in FTP browser (which doesn't support SFTP)...but sporadically, when I have a file open, Transmit holds a lock on that file...so I'll edit a web page and then try to load that page and I'll get a server error...checking the log it says that that 'resource is busy'...I have to QUIT Transmit to get it to free up the file (closing the Transfer window doesn't do the trick)...anyone...anyone?

brainchild2b · Apr 25, 2003, 01:07 AM

Transmit is a great program but it needs some work.

Queues of files are just wierd. I can't ever get them to work acceptably, and sheets and windows are slow.

Also some of the error message FTP reports need to be updated to let me know what the ftp server is really saying.

If they get a way to retry connections and fix up a few other annoyances it will be the best FTP client on planet earth. It already beats anything in windows (ftp voyager) is the closest. It should also support SCP since it's nothing more than SSH as well.

Thanks.

DeathMan · Apr 25, 2003, 01:25 AM

I agree that trasmit is a great product. I wonder why the keyboard navigation is so limited. From what I can tell, there is no way to enter a folder using only the keyboard.

I've also had limited problems with dropping connections, and so forth, but I suspect it has more to do with the server than the client.

I think trasmit is great. Its one of the few peices of shareware (or low cost ware) that I've registered (a couple of haxies too, but I haven't been using them). Panic and Unsanity are both great outfits.

graveguy · Apr 25, 2003, 01:52 AM

Originally posted by DeathMan:
I agree that trasmit is a great product. I wonder why the keyboard navigation is so limited. From what I can tell, there is no way to enter a folder using only the keyboard.

I have found the keyboard navigation to be pretty intuitive if you are comfortable with Finder keyboard navigation...for example...to enter a folder, command-down arrow...same as in finder...hitting return will rename (as in finder)...

DeathMan · Apr 25, 2003, 01:57 AM

Holy Crap! The Transmit support said there wasn't a way to do that. I always use command-o to open folders in the finder. Thanks, man!

brainchild2b · Apr 25, 2003, 02:11 AM

What I'm confused on is the "Batch Window" where do I tell it where to download from? I don't one it dowloading to my desktop, as my system drive doesn't have room for files. I have a backup drive for that. How can I do this?

osxisfun · Apr 25, 2003, 10:34 AM

looks like indeed its the SSH then?

i'll do a search on macoshints..

ps. i use it to edit bbedit and its never locked up a file on me for what its worth.

YES. the sheets are a pain. i thought i was the only one...