SSHFS for OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion)

SshSftpOsx Mountain-Lion

Ssh Problem Overview


In the past I used SSHFS to mount drives, so I could easily work on remote machines with software from my machine. However, when I was at the MacFUSE project page, I noticed that SSHFS has been long since deprecated.

What are people using with Mountain Lion to mount drives? Is it built-in to OSX yet, or has some other project completely replaced the functionality brought to us by SSHFS?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

EDIT: In the past I used "SSHFS GUI" to mount drives. It looks very similar to the the Finder >> Go >> Connect to server... interface.

+1 -> m01 - I'm currently using your solution, but if anyone knows a GUI I would love to hear about it.

Ssh Solutions


Solution 1 - Ssh

OSXFUSE seems to work. I just downloaded the two OSXFUSE and SSHFS packages from http://osxfuse.github.com (the links are on the right hand side), and ran:

sshfs user@host:/dir /mnt/somelocaldirectory

EDIT: if you want a GUI, you might want to try sshfs-gui, though I haven't tried it myself.

Personally, I'd use Cyberduck, though it doesn't technically do the same as what SSHFS does, but maybe it's enough for your purposes. It will let you browse files that you can access via an ssh connection, and seems to have options for editing them as well.

Solution 2 - Ssh

According to the OSXFuse wiki, you can use Macfusion with a simple tweak, e.g. moving the old sshfs-static and linking it to the new one by OSXFuse as below. I've done this and it works fine.

cd /Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources
mv sshfs-static sshfs-static.orig
ln -s /usr/local/bin/sshfs sshfs-static

Solution 3 - Ssh

Back in the Leopard days, I was using SSHFS as well, and it worked ok, as long as you didn't push it too hard (large files or spotty network coverage).

I just setup Expandrive on my new Retina MBP and it works pretty well. (auto re-connects on wake, no hiccups). All I had to do was to register my SSH agent ssh-add -K for the private key, and it's been smooth sailing so far.

I've tried on both Lion and Mountain Lion, and it seems to work pretty well. For $40, it's totally worth it to me.

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