Sunday 2 March 2008
MacFuse, SSHFS, MacFusion: mounting remote filesystems
These tools are great if you want to connect remotely to a server and mount locally a directory which lives on the server. In this way you can use all your local tools to edit/modify, copy/paste files: you'll be editing files on the server, but using local software. Install SSHFS and MacFuse and then MacFusion to manage your sshfs volumes from the desktop. Painless installation. One thing: if you want to see the mounted volumes appear on your desktop, do not forget to activate Show Connected Servers under Finder>Preferences>General.
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hi !
Why do you need these applications?
I just use the Finder. Go>Connect to server, then write the server, like
smb://myserver.bris.ac.uk/myhome
and it's mounted with the same features as you describe.
Lorena
Hi Lorena,
thanks for the tip! It's good to know that it works for servers of our University. In my case, the server in Surrey doesn't seem to like the smb protocol, whereas sshfs lets me log in with a simple ssh connection.
Thanks again!
Yeah, it's really comfy to mount with Finder. You can then drag and drop the server icon to your login Items and it will do it automatically each time you log in!
If I'm outside the University, then I need to use VPN for the smb mount to work.
If I need sftp, then I use a cute app called Fugu.
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