From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 20:32:02 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 2450D16A403 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:32:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrpt@catholic.org) Received: from pecan.exetel.com.au (pecan.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B3313C48D for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:32:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrpt@catholic.org) Received: from 28.101.233.220.exetel.com.au ([220.233.101.28] helo=[192.168.1.3]) by pecan.exetel.com.au with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HMrwW-0007kE-GW for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:32:00 +1100 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) In-Reply-To: <200703011058.28791.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <0fa18d202fd5dfa13608dc9e2c627941@catholic.org> <200703011058.28791.lists@jnielsen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Never you mind Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 07:31:59 +1100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) 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 20:32:02 -0000 On 02/03/2007, at 2:58 AM, 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). thanks John, That sounds like what I want. I have previously used KDE as the desktop manager and it included graphical tools which managed this job. However, I'm learning to like xfce and looking at what I can do to make it work for me. malcolm