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Old 01-19-2004, 07:09 AM   #1
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Question Mounting a ftp folder in /mnt


Is it possible to create a local link (via mount or ln) to a ftp server ?

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Old 01-19-2004, 08:01 AM   #2
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I think that there is a utility called ftp2nfsd which can do this. As i dont know much about it, I googled for it and one of the links is this
http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/deepak/ftp2nfsd/

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Old 01-20-2004, 06:09 PM   #3
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There is also UserLandFS that (should) allow you to mount an ftp site/directory to a local directory. Used to be ftpfs
 
  


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