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Does ‘mac os x sshfs’ exist?

Answer
YES!!!!
Thanks for letting me know!
The project is called MacFuse and its hosted by google code.
For PPC users, there’s a binary, but there are also instructions to build it yourself.

Installation instructions:

$ wget http://macfuse.googlecode.com/files/fuse-binaries-0.1.0b006.tar.bz2
$ sudo tar xjf fuse-binaries-0.1.0b006.tar.bz2 -C /
$ echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin" >> /etc/profile

Mounting goes as follows, make sure that you first create a mount point (empty directory):

$ mkdir -p ~/mnt/host
$ sshfs host:remote_directory ~/mnt/host -oping_diskarb,volname=hostname

The first time you do this, the sshfs command will report something like:

fusefs.kext loaded successfully

That’s it, have fun!
Unfortunately not!
If it does, please let me know!
Until then, maybe nfs tunneling over ssh would be an alternative?

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2 Responses to “Does ‘mac os x sshfs’ exist?”

  1. Craig Buchek says:
    January 13, 2007 at 6:37 pm

    Wow. I was just looking for the same thing today. It turns out that Google just released such a beast 2 days ago. Figured I’d leave that as an update on your page here. It’s a port to Mac OS X of the Linux FUSE (file-systems in user-space) project. It’s called MacFUSE, and includes the sshfs component. Looks like it was written by Amit Singh, one of the top Mac developers around. (I did not recall that he was working for Google now.) The announcement is here.

  2. anon says:
    January 14, 2007 at 2:13 am

    There is a FUSE port for OSX. acording to that it is possible to use SSHFS.
    http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/HOWTO
    but i haven’t fount a working package for SSHFS :-(

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