From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 11:04:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A80216A4B3 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:04:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B4A43F75 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:04:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 61F263AF6; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:04:11 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200310091723.h99HNwa6098076@mail3.mx.voyager.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 10 Oct 2003 14:04:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200310091723.h99HNwa6098076@mail3.mx.voyager.net> Message-ID: <443ce1otpg.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Mounting FTP sites to directory? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:04:13 -0000 "Dragoncrest" writes: > Went googling on this and haven't come up with anything yet. So since > I've already done all my outside research first (as suggested by several > members. hehe) so I'm coming to you as a last resort to gather some > information on my question. > > What I'm wanting to do is to mount an FTP site to a folder on my file > system. That way when I go to, oh say /mysite on my file system, it > would automatically log me into "ftp.mysite.org/Pub/" for example and > display the remote site as though it were on my local system. I could > then open, copy, move, edit, etc any files I wanted to as though they > were local. Any way I can do this? There's something called "ftp2nfsd" out there somewhere which might do this, but I don't know anything about it. Because filesystems are so tightly bound to the kernel, though, I prefer not to have any that are dependent on long network traversals; the ange-ftp (or efs) support in emacs is a superior alternative for my own work habits.