From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 16:46:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 543C216A400 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:46:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1594C13C467 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:46:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l21GksCq068300; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:46:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <45E70378.5070008@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:46:48 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Nielsen References: <0fa18d202fd5dfa13608dc9e2c627941@catholic.org> <200703011058.28791.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200703011058.28791.lists@jnielsen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Never you mind , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting an FTP space ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:46:58 -0000 John Nielsen wrote: > On Thursday 01 March 2007 01:37, Never you mind wrote: >> On my Mac from the Finder I can select "Connect to server", give it the >> details of an ftp location and it will connect and display the ftp >> space as a drive on the desktop. >> >> Can I obtain the same sort of functionality using freeBSD and xfce >> desktop manager? > > I haven't used it, but the sysutils/fusefs-curlftpfs should allow you to mount > an ftp location as a virtual filesystem. The desktop icon thing you'll have > to work out on your own, but it shouldn't be too difficult (a shortcut to > your chosen mountpoint should suffice). > And I'll have to apologize for the noise of my last, as John seems to have caught what you were Really Asking(tm). Kevin Kinsey -- panic: kernel trap (ignored)