Edit:I have built this ‘as is’ and unfortunately can’t offer any support.
MacFusion is a great little app for easily mounting folders on your OS X desktop using SSH or FTP.
Unfortunately, it seems that the official app’s website hasn’t been updated for a while, and doesn’t work properly on Lion, or Mountain Lion.
However, it appear some great guys have been maintaining the MacFusion and keeping it up to date for OS X Lion and Mountain Lion. The only downside – there don’t seem to be any builds of the software.
I’ve gone ahead and built the app to save you the trouble. You can download the latest version of MacFusion that I’ve built from my MacFusion GitHub fork.
If you’re not scared to get your hands a little dirty, it’s probably worth building the app from scratch yourself. The most active fork of the app seems to be Iframow’s fork.
MacFusion at work – the MacFusion interface on Lion
Using the method in Rob Aldred’s comment, I have been able to get this to work in Mountain Lion, but in Australia, with a 13Mbps down and 700K up internet connection, this software is just WAY too slow to be useable. Remote Desktop Client is slow, but useable under these speeds, but unfortunately, macfusion isn’t.
It is working on Mavericks with public key authentication, passphrase does not (could not open tty).
Thanks anyway 🙂
Thanks Rob! Those links works great.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! You saved me!
Thanks, link is fixed!
Download link is broken.
Nope. I have the version of Macfusion2 linked in the comment above, and the latest version of OSXFUSE, and when I try to mount a disk on Lion I get “Could not mount filesystem: Mount process has terminated unexpectedly.”
For all new users coming here trying to get MacFusion working for the first time.
It’s 2 easy steps on Lion
1.
Get OSXFuse
https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/downloads
(Make sure use check the option to install compatibility)
2.
Get the MacFusion app kindly compiled by Patrick
https://github.com/pjrobertson/macfusion2/downloads
(Drop it in /Applications or where ever)