network filesystems (mount via ftp)?

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Tue Jan 18 19:08:18 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 12:50, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> I can mount smb filesystems out of the box in FC3, why not ftp?  How can I
> mount ftp filesystems?  I just want to say "mount -t
> ftpfs //ftp.blah.blah /mnt/blah".  Ftp seems so much simpler than smb, why
> can't FC3 do this outta the box without installing other software?

Perhaps it is because ftp servers are almost nothing like file
servers and trying to cover up the differences would make people
think it was a reasonable thing to attempt.  If all of your
operations involve whole files you might be able to get by, but
if that is the case you can just point nautilus (and some of the
other file manager/browsers at
ftp://username:password@hostname.domain

> Also, what software is good for doing this? 

What is it you need to do?  There are hundreds of ways to move files
around.  Rsync and scp are probably better than ftp if they are
available on the server.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com





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