GUI for connecting network volumes via SSH, new version

My application is the usual “face” to the sshfs console application or to the same MacFUSE based 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. A lot of new things have been added in the new version, for example, normal support for checking RSA / DSA keys (this is not implemented even in such a monster as Macfusion.app ), support for MacFUSE and compression, as well as the ability to specify an arbitrary port for connection.

Installation and use

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

• Download and install console sshfs , then restart the computer, and / or
  Download and install MacFUSE if it is not yet installed (reboot after installing MacFUSE is not required)
• Download and install my application: sshfs-gui.googlecode.com/files/sshfs-gui.1.0.2.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. To specify the connection port, add “: port number ” to the end of the server name, for example “habrahabr.ru:123”.

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.
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Screencast

To take a look at how this all works, I suggest reading the following short video:

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:

• Offer to remember passwords in Keychain
• Show more distinct error messages when using MacFUSE-backend (unfortunately, the utility itself displays very scant information about the error)

"Analogs"

• MacFusion: www.macfusionapp.org
  
  Be careful, MacFusion disables RSA / DSA 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 + SSHFS under Windows: (C # implementation) dokan-dev.net/en/download
  
  Thanks for the link to gromka
  
• Under Linux, there is a huge number of solutions with a graphical interface, including from the authors on Habré: habrahabr.ru/blogs/python/52217