Mount ftp as local drive - OS X & Ubuntu

[Desmo]

Got an excel file that I'd like to use both at work and at home. It's only 36k in size so nothing major.

What I'd like to be able to do is open it up straight from the webspace in some way, use it and then save it again. I want to avoid downloading it and uploading it again as this could lead to errors if I forget to upload afterwards or something.

Can I mount the webspace folder as a local drive or something? Can be OS X only if really necessary.

[Desmo]

Just as a note, I can connect to the web folder using Connect to Server in OS X via ftp but it will not let me write to the folder even though it has correct permissions.

[Chuckles]

iDisk iNnit.

[Feek]

I'd love to be able to have a mounted device on my desktop in OS X pointing to an ftp network drive so this interests me. I also tried Connect to Server but it allowed me only read access.

[Stan_Lite]

Not a direct answer to your question but I have an Excel file I like to be able to access and alter from anywhere (my work rota) - I use Google docs for this.

[Desmo]

iDisk iNnit.
Not paying Apple for iDisk webpsace just to host a 36k file :D

Google Docs look quite good but I think I'd prefer to keep it to an actual normal file. Will look more into how Google Docs works though as I might have misunderstood it.

[Burble]

Finder only mounts FTP volumes as read only so you need to use a 3rd party solution. Apparently it can be done with macfuse (http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/) (which I'm using for the NTFS-3g stuff) but I'm yet to try it with an FTP volume

[Daz]

Was gonna say, from a *nix point of view there's bound to be something using fuse. Quick Google turns up this:

http://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/

There are apparently packages in the repos.

http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/05/how-to-use-ftp-filesystem-on-ubuntu-using-curlftpfs.html

Seems pretty simple :)

[Jasper]

have a look at FUSE, and MacFUSE. Not used FUSE, but MacFUSE works really well

[Desmo]

I had a really quick play with Fuse on Ubuntu last night and I think it should do what I need. Once I've got that sorted I'll have a play with MacFuse. Hopefully, that should be problem solved :)

[Feek]

I've got this working now - The core MacFUSE package along with MacFusion as an easily configurable GUI for it.