Mats Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi ! > > Does anyone know a way to mount a remote file systems > over ftp ? > I found something called "userfs" but it seemed > incomplete and out of date. > (I guess "sitecopy" is another way to do what I want > to do but mounting would be cooler.)
See ange-ftp in Emacs, which runs when you open a file called /<username>@<remotehost>:<path>. For example, C-x C-f /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:. will prompt you for a password and open your home directory on remotehost in a dired-mode buffer. You can then treat files on remotehost as if they were on localhost. And there are some bonuses, like if you run shell-command from a buffer containing a remote file, Emacs executes the command via rsh from the remote host. For secure connections, there is a thing called rcp.el which can supposedly use any backend with rsh-like syntax (e.g., ssh). I don't remember why I'm not using that right now instead of ange-ftp. -chris
