Comments on: MacFUSE: sshfs for your mac

By: Zach S

Zach S — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:18:37 +0000

Running OSX Lion, and surprised that MacFUSE sshfs hasn’t been updated for 64-bit yet… was getting “remote host has disconnected” errors.

Just move /Applications/sshfs.app/Contents/Resources/sshnodelay.so to sshnodelay.so.disabled

I get a warning when performing the mount, but it works. The sshfs GUI seems to work fine, too.

Thanks!

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:19:41 +0000

To answer Chris’s question.
Being able to work on the remote files from your local
workstation with local tools and not have to move them back
and forth with scp/rsync or some other transfer tool.
This makes them look just like something local. Nice way
to work on your remote web site if you have ssh access.

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:16:06 +0000

I had the same problem as Matthew. The defaults of sshfs dont have the mapping correct if your remote vs local uids are not aligned. Same goes as well with user names.
The option is to add the -o idmap=user.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:10:11 +0000

@Chris: If you have to ask, you probably don’t need it.

I like MacFUSE and sshfs a lot, except that I have a serious problem if my username isn’t the same on the remote system. I mounted a remote file system with the appropriate username/password for that server, and was able to read all the files…but whenever I tried to write to one, it said permission was denied. Very irritating, and I haven’t found a way around it.

By: Toontje

Toontje — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:28:26 +0000

Thanks for the debug option explanation!

By: Chris Blow

Chris Blow — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:00:49 +0000

Sorry to be a bother if this is a stupid questions, but why might I want to do this? I mean what applications are there, and what advantages?