Mac OS X: Mounting remote filesystems (SSH / SCP / FTP) as if they were local hard drives
Hey everybody with a Mac,
you know how it's annoying to always SCP things back and forth if you want to, for example, keep viewing the PDFs you generate with R, or images you generate with Gnuplot? Or maybe you'd like to do code search-and-replace in a text editor you understand instead of trying to figure it out in emacs?
This program lets you mount an SCP / FTP server (for example, your account on jig.cse.ucsc.edu or a project directory in /projects/sysbio/) on the desktop just like it was an external hard drive.
Basically, anywhere you can SSH to, you can now see the files like they're on a local hard drive.
Previously, you could do this with
WebDAV? , but it was SLOW and unreliable. Now you can do it with ANY SSH-able location.
Here is the program you want:
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/08/mgorbach/MacFusionWeb/
It will redirect you to also first install "MacFuse" from:
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
(you will want to download
http://macfuse.googlecode.com/files/MacFUSE-Core-0.3.0.dmg and
http://macfuse.googlecode.com/files/sshfs-0.3.0.dmg, both of which are in the green box on the right side of the web page).
It took me about 5 minutes to get SSH up and running. It requires a restart after installing
MacFUSE? , however.
Alex
