Howto use?

[Chris news]

Sorry for being dumb, but where can I find info on how to use OSXFUSE? I've downloaded and installed it, but I've no idea how to use it directly.

I have MacFusion which works occasionally, but mostly it crashed my machine. So, I'd like to use the OSXFUSE on its own.
TIA

[chipmck]

suggest the FAQ http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/FAQ

[Benjamin Fleischer]

Hi Chris,

OSXFUSE is like MacFUSE just a set of libraries to make writing actual file systems easier. You can't use OSXFUSE/MacFUSE without any third-party file system. Popular file systems are for example NTFS-3G, sshfs or ftpfs. MacFusion is a nice graphical front-end which uses MacFUSE/OSXFUSE and includes sshfs and ftps.

Which version of MacFusion did you use? Which version of OSXFUSE was installed at the time of the crash? OSXFUSE versions prior to 2.3.4 had a bug that could trigger a system crash under certain conditions.

In case you used an older version of OSXFUSE I recommend updating to version 2.3.4. If that does not solve your problem with MacFusion, it would be helpful if you could be a little more specific to what triggered the system crash.

Regards,
Benjamin

[Steven Carver]

I would like to add to this. I too, am really needing to access an FTP server via Finder as a mounted drive. So I found macfusion. I also found MacFUSE 2.2.1. With both OSXFUSE and MacFUSE in the preferences, I can un/install each on the fly. I have been doning that because they can't seem to be installed together. I guess that should make sense. Anyhow, when I have MacFUSE installed, macfusion works well, but I get errors whenever I try to write at all. With OSXFUSE installed, I get an error when I try to mount a server.

"Could not mount filesystem: Mount process has terminated unexpectedly."

I hope you can fix that soon, I really need to have this server easily accessible from Finder.

[Benjamin Fleischer]

Hi Steven,

I just tried to reproduce your issue but I can mount FTP shares without any problems using Macfusion 2.0.4 and OSXFUSE 2.3.4. That said, I might have an explanation and a solution for your issue.

Am 13.09.2011 um 22:45 schrieb Steven Carver:

I would like to add to this. I too, am really needing to access an FTP server via Finder as a mounted drive. So I found macfusion. I also found MacFUSE 2.2.1. With both OSXFUSE and MacFUSE in the preferences, I can un/install each on the fly. I have been doning that because they can't seem to be installed together. I guess that should make sense.

On a side note: Switching between MacFUSE and OSXFUSE (with MacFUSE compatibility layer) on the fly by installing one over the other is not recommended and can potentially lead to serious problems.

Anyhow, when I have MacFUSE installed, macfusion works well, but I get errors whenever I try to write at all. With OSXFUSE installed, I get an error when I try to mount a server.

"Could not mount filesystem: Mount process has terminated unexpectedly."

I hope you can fix that soon, I really need to have this server easily accessible from Finder.

If you remove OSXFUSE using the preference pane and then reinstall it using the preference pane later, it installs only the default packages (Core and Preference Pane). The MacFUSE compatibility layer is not selected by default as you might have noticed when installing OSXFUSE using the installer, you downloaded. As a result you ended up without the compatibility layer which is needed for Macfusion to work properly. The error message "Could not mount filesystem: Mount process has terminated unexpectedly." is produced by Macfusion which can't find the FUSE library.

To fix this, reinstall OSXFUSE using the installer disk image and check the MacFUSE compatibility layer. You can download the latest version from https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/downloads. You won't need MacFUSE anymore. Hope this helps.

It might be a good idea to add a dialog asking if the compatibility layer should be installed in case OSXFUSE is installed using the preference pane.

Regards,

Benjamin

[Steven Carver]

I did originally install with the compatibility layer, even though I had no idea what it did. I will do just that and report back here with my results in a few hours.

[Steven Carver]

So I uninstalled both from their preference panes, rebooted, installed MacFUSE from its pane, rebooted, installed OSXFUSE with the compatibility layer, rebooted, ran MacFusion, and I get various errors when writing to the server still. When I access the same server with Windows 7, I don't get any errors at all. It is possible that I didn't set up my server right? I just did a simple setup with Ubuntu 11.04. 

[Chris news]

Hi Benjamin,

Thanks for the reply.

Sorry for not being clear, but what I was after was a commandline alternative. However, I updated OSXFUSE to 2.3.4 (from 2.3.3) and, so far, MacFusion (v2.0.4) is working :)  Hopefully that sorted it!
Cheers,

Chris

[Joe Auty]

You can create a symlink from the Macfusion application folder to any FUSE implementation you want... e.g.:

$ ls -lh
total 1776
-rwxr-xr-x  1 joe  joe    42K Jun  8  2010 new_sshfs_askpass
lrwxr-xr-x  1 joe  joe    20B Jul 18 17:41 sshfs-static -> /usr/local/bin/sshfs
-rwxr-xr-x  1 joe  joe   716K Apr  5 01:05 sshfs-static.orig
-rw-r--r--  1 joe  joe    13K Jun  8  2010 sshfs.png
-rw-r--r--  1 joe  joe   6.8K Jun  8  2010 sshfsAdvanced.nib
-rw-r--r--  1 joe  joe   7.7K Jun  8  2010 sshfsConfiguration.nib
-rw-r--r--  1 joe  joe    60K Jun  8  2010 sshfs_icon.icns
-rwxr-xr-x  1 joe  joe    29K Jun  8  2010 sshnodelay.so.orig


$ pwd
/Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources

Chris news September 14, 2011 2:30 PM

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Benjamin Fleischer September 13, 2011 12:36 PM

Hi Chris,

OSXFUSE is like MacFUSE just a set of libraries to make writing actual file systems easier. You can't use OSXFUSE/MacFUSE without any third-party file system. Popular file systems are for example NTFS-3G, sshfs or ftpfs. MacFusion is a nice graphical front-end which uses MacFUSE/OSXFUSE and includes sshfs and ftps.

Which version of MacFusion did you use? Which version of OSXFUSE was installed at the time of the crash? OSXFUSE versions prior to 2.3.4 had a bug that could trigger a system crash under certain conditions.

In case you used an older version of OSXFUSE I recommend updating to version 2.3.4. If that does not solve your problem with MacFusion, it would be helpful if you could be a little more specific to what triggered the system crash.

Regards,
Benjamin

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Chris news September 12, 2011 4:24 AM

Sorry for being dumb, but where can I find info on how to use OSXFUSE? I've downloaded and installed it, but I've no idea how to use it directly.

I have MacFusion which works occasionally, but mostly it crashed my machine. So, I'd like to use the OSXFUSE on its own.
TIA

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[Juber Patel]

I totally agree with the original poster. All I could find was how to install/uninstall which is ridiculous.

This SO page helped me use it:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12510421/sshfs-for-osx-10-8-mountain-lion#

Thanks.

Juber