GUI for connecting network volumes via SSH

My application is the usual “face” to the sshfs console application and is available for download at code.google.com/p/sshfs-gui . It was written by me for teaching Cocoa programming and is my first graphical application for Mac OS X.

Installation and use

To install the application, you must perform the following steps:

• Download and install console sshfs , then restart the computer.
• Download and install my application: sshfs-gui.googlecode.com/files/sshfs-gui.1.0.dmg

In order to mount any volume, fill in the required fields (in the case of authorization using SSH keys, it is not necessary to enter the password) and click Connect.

Important: If you have never connected to the SSH host you specified before, then you must connect to the host via SSH by typing the following line in the Terminal and adding the host to the list of known ones (that is, enter “yes” at the beginning) .
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$ ssh login @ server

If the connection is successful, then the mounted network volume will open in Finder. You can, by dragging the volume icon in the Finder header, drag the network volume to the “Finder” sidebar in the “Devices” section, and then this volume will be displayed there always when this network volume is connected.

PS The application is “whipped up” and cannot correctly handle all possible situations. For this, there is a button "Stop" :). Also, the application does not have its own icon and the About-dialog with help. If you want to help improve the application - please contact.

Screencast

I can not help but publish a small screencast, which clearly shows how it all works.

Add. materials, thanks

• Project site on Google Code with source texts and a backup link for downloading sshfs
• Thank you switchON user for writing the application and testing the application

Future plans:

• Add the ability to specify the connection port
• Check the login and server name for validity
• Do not force users to log in via SSH manually for the first time.
• Offer to remember passwords in Keychain

"Analogs"

• MacFusion: www.macfusionapp.org
  
  Be careful, MacFusion disables RSA server fingerprints during operation, which may not be in your plans. After you install MacFUSE and MacFusion.app, run the command in the console
  

  mv /Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/sshnodelay.so /Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/sshnodelay.so.bak

  
  Thanks for the information noma4i
• FUSE for Windows: dokan-dev.net/en/download
  
  Thanks for the link to gromka