I finally got fed up enough to look into this. I’ve previously used Samba mounts, but this in theory should be better.

http://www.turingtarpit.com/2009/04/mounting-remote-filesystems-on-osx-leopard-using-sshfs-macfuse-and-macfusion/

If you’re using Snow Leopard, the drive will not be able to mount. You can get around this by deleting /Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/sshnodelay.so

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3 Responses to Helpful guide for setting up SSHFS on mac

  1. Rico S says:

    This is quite handy when it comes to accessing remote systems. However, when accessing boxes in your local network, I’ve found Samba to have faster throughput.

  2. jon says:

    I didn’t do any performance testing with it, so I have no idea if it’s faster / slower than SMB, but it wouldn’t surprise me given it has to encrypt / decrypt everything. It’s really just a matter of convenience so I don’t have to set up samba.

  3. Sam S says:

    i set this up at home. it rocks.
    i had to do a few things for snow leaopard. i found it from reading comments in those articles.

    http://rackerhacker.com/2009/08/28/fix-macfusion-on-snow-leopard/

    quit macfusion, then:

    1. rm /Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/sshnodelay.so
    i was paranoid, so i just renamed it…

    2. open System Preferences and then open the MacFUSE pane. Check the “Show Beta Versions” box and click “Check For Updates”. Go ahead and update MacFUSE.

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