Unfortunately Macfusion doesn’t work well with Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8). If this process does not work for you, try restarting your mac, then re-adding the Macfusion share. You can now directly edit files on the sftp share using any app on your mac without the need to manually download and re-upload them. You can press cmd+r to show your share in the Finder. After a few moments your share will be available. Perform the usual drag and drop into your Applications folder then run Macfusion.Īdd a new Macfusion share by clicking on the plus icon and selecting SSHFS, enter your details, click ok, then mount. Once installed, you need to get Macfusion from If you’re using OS X 10.8 (or above…) use the default install options and skip down to the Mountain Lion section now.Īt the “Installation Type” stage, be sure to select MacFUSE Compatibility Layer. If you’d like to use an sftp share directly though finder then this guide is for you. Now, the one and only real thing to make sure however is: Be aware that the Finder doesn’t like unstable connections - it will hopelessly beachball once the connection is interrupted unexpectedly for whatever reason. “NAMEOFMOUNT” is the name of the volume as it will appear in the finger.Īfter entering this you should be prompted for the password of the SSH account, now, magically, you should have the volume appear in the Finder. I just created empty directories in my home folder for that purpose (e.g. “MOUNTPOINT” - you will need a mountpoint on your local filesystem, this should preferably be an empty directory. “DIR” being the directory you want to mount Sshfs USE :/DIR /MOUNTPOINT -oping_diskarb,volname=NAMEOFMOUNT With the help of this you can basically mount SSH accounts as virtual volumes - and with the right parameters it even works in the Finder: I found Google’s MacFUSE do to the job prettily, using a SSH filesystem (almost) works like a charm.ĭownload it and install, preferably compile it from the source, which is described in the Google Code HOWTO: /p/macfuse/wiki/HOWTO I have tried everything that came onto my mind so far, even some very weird, exotic and just plain scary SSH tunnel workarounds, luck seems to avoid me though. Sadly, after endless amounts of investigation and searching on google, I didn’t find a solution that works apart from “Use Transmit, it’s as close as you will get!”. Unfortunately, the Finder itself only has read only FTP support (now I also know that FTP wasn’t made as a protocol for doing these kinds of things in the first place), which doesn’t get me too far actually, since every time I would want to upload/change a file I would need to start Transmit (or any other FTP client) and use the clunky non-embedded interface to manage the files, which is, for me at least, nowhere near satisfactory. Since I’m a person who loves to have everything integrated into the standard GUI as good as possible I’ve been trying to find a solution for mounting directories/shares of that server straight into the finder, like you do with the iDisk or any other NFS/SMB/AFP share. Now I’m using Mac OS X and Transmit/Yummy FTP for most of my tasks. Have a server that only has FTP/SFTP/TLS support for accessing the files on it, which, in general, should be mostly sufficient.
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