Re: Mount ftp fs
Mats Eriksson <mats_e_eriksson@yahoo.se> writes:
> Hi !
>
> Does anyone know a way to mount a remote file systems
> over ftp ?
> I found something called "userfs" but it seemed
> incomplete and out of date.
> (I guess "sitecopy" is another way to do what I want
> to do but mounting would be cooler.)
See ange-ftp in Emacs, which runs when you open a file called
/<username>@<remotehost>:<path>. For example, C-x C-f /mats@remotehost:.
will prompt you for a password and open your home directory on
remotehost in a dired-mode buffer. You can then treat files on
remotehost as if they were on localhost. And there are some bonuses,
like if you run shell-command from a buffer containing a remote file,
Emacs executes the command via rsh from the remote host.
For secure connections, there is a thing called rcp.el which can
supposedly use any backend with rsh-like syntax (e.g., ssh).
I don't remember why I'm not using that right now instead of
ange-ftp.
-chris
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