Hi Chris Blouche, Thanks a lot for this piece of knowledge Chris. I tried it. I installed mac fuse, and mac fusion. Mac fusion seems to have a lot of issues though. I'll mention a few for the knowledge of the list and for the archives. In case someone googled this message: mac fusion is not VmWare fusion. Mac fusion is used to mount filesystems on remote machines, accessible via a protocol like ftp, on to your own mac as a regular volume. This allows editing directly etc.
As of now, september 2011, attempting to connect to a server of which I have login credentials gave: process quit unexpectedly. When attempting to delete the entry in the main window where I try to connect to a server, mac fusion asks: are you sure you want to delete the file system, and then the name of the server I'm trying to connect to. This action cannot be undone. Okay button. I clicked okay and it keeps you waiting forever. Fortunately you can command q out of mac fusion. Lastly, when I try to click on the support item in the mac fusion help menu, I get a page does not exist. So for now, I don't think mac fusion is usable for an average user, but it is great that some folks stumbled on this great idea and are trying to make this work. Sorry to have no support page. Paul. On Sep 6, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Not sure why Apple did it this way but the normal Finder connection to an FTP > server is read only. Apparently if you install Google's MacFUSE, which is a > framework for mounting all kinds of different volumes, you can then add > Macfusion which lets you mount an FTP server as read/write. I haven't tried > it but it sounded straightforward enough. Give it a whirl since both packages > are free. > > MacFUSE framework > http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ > > Macfusion FTP plugin > http://macfusionapp.org/ > > CB > > On 9/6/11 5:58 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: >> Hi listers, >> When opening an ftp server on the internet from within finder in Lion, it is >> perfectly possible to download stuff. Command k to input the server name >> like ftp://ftp.somewhere.com, and I'm asked for my credentials. Using an ftp >> client, I have read and write permissions there. However, from the finder, I >> can only read. Attempting to delete a file won't work. Hitting command i for >> info on the file, says I can only read, in the permissions field. What is >> going on here? Why can't I write, or command c commanc v upload, into the >> server, even though the server itself allows me to do it using a normal ftp >> client? >> >> In an attempt to collect information for trouble shooting, >> If I connect through smb to another computer on my home network, I can write >> without problems. If I approach the same home networked computer using ftp, >> I can't write either. So my own ftp or somewhere on the internet, even if I >> have write permissions, using finder ftp, I cannot write. Any ideas? >> >> Paul. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
