Have you found how to do the mounting from Quicksilver yet?

Thanks for the post!

Thanks for your comment. MacFUSE and SSHFS are fairly easy to install. However, you need to make sure your FTP server accepts connections from SSH clients. The most important difference between FTP and SSH/SFTP is that FTP sends login information (username and password) in the clear so that anyone can intercept and obtain your login credentials. SSH and SFTP (the SSH version of FTP) encrypt all traffic to protect login and all transfered information.

In short, SSHFS is only designed to work with SSH, so you’ll need to make sure your FTP server supports that.

Once you know you can login to your sever via SSH, install the MacFUSE package at:

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/downloads/list

This install is straightforward, but doesn’t produce any discernible results. Essentially, MacFUSE installs the system-level underpinnings that make SSHFS possible. You’ll have to restart after installation.

Next download SSHFS, also at:

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/downloads/list

The SSHFS DMG only contains SSHFS.app, which is a GUI interface to setup an SSH file system. If you want to mount the SSHFS automatically through a script, you can follow the instructions at:

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/MACFUSE_FS_SSHFS

Once you’ve mounted your server as network disk using SSHFS, you can add the network volume to Quicksilver by setting a catalog entry for the mount.

N.B. I would advise not cataloging the contents of your network volume because Quicksilver seemed to perform very slowly when I did this. Setting “Include contents” to “None” seemed to prevent this.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any more questions.

Best,

Tony

Thanks!
Dennis