From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 16:43:52 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 C0EB616A408 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:43:52 +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 8559F13C4B6 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:43:52 +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 l21GhmGV068269; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:43:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <45E702BC.30407@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:43:40 -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: Never you mind References: <0fa18d202fd5dfa13608dc9e2c627941@catholic.org> In-Reply-To: <0fa18d202fd5dfa13608dc9e2c627941@catholic.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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 16:43:52 -0000 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? > The built in "file manager" Thunar doesn't seem to have this functionality (though I stand ready to be corrected if I'm wrong, I tested casually and scanned the manpage), but there are 125 programs in /usr/ports/ftp, and one of them should work. And, just to show that I'm not being overtly cynical here, here's a short list of those programs that seem to be graphical and client-side in nature; perhaps one of them will suit you, or others could comment on their use. Terminals and ftp(1) for me ;-) Note that a] I've probably missed some; b] Those that start with "K" are probably for KDE and might not be something you want to get into (lots of dependencies you may not want) c] possibly ditto with gftp<-->Gnome, and some others may be rather "heavy".... iglooftp wxftp filezilla ftpcube gFTP JFTP Kasablanca Kbear KFTPGRabber llnlxdir multiget waiho wmget wxdfast Xrmftp Kevin Kinsey -- Early to bed and early to rise and you'll be groggy when everyone else is wide awake.