ftpfs(4) [plan9 man page]

FTPFS(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							  FTPFS(4)

NAME

       ftpfs  - file transfer protocol (FTP) file system

SYNOPSIS

       ftpfs [ -/dq ] [ -m mountpoint ] [ -a password ] system

DESCRIPTION

       Ftpfs dials the TCP file transfer protocol (FTP) port, 21, on system and mounts itself (see bind(2)) on mountpoint (default /n/ftp) to pro-
       vide access to files on the remote machine.  If required by the remote machine, ftpfs will prompt for a user name and password.	 The  user
       names  ftp  and anonymous conventionally offer guest/read-only access to machines.  Anonymous FTP may be called without user interaction by
       using the -a option and specifying the password.

       By default the file seen at the mount point is the user's remote home directory.  The option -/ forces the mount point to correspond to the
       remote root.

       To avoid seeing startup messages from the server use option -q.	To see all messages from the server use option -d.

       To terminate the connection, unmount (see bind(1)) the mount point.

EXAMPLE

       You  want  anonymous  FTP  access to the system export.lcs.mit.edu.  The first import(4) command is only necessary if your machine does not
       have access to the desired system, but another, called gateway in this example, does.

	      import gateway /net
	      ftpfs -a yourname@yourmachine export.lcs.mit.edu

SOURCE

       /sys/src/cmd/ftpfs

SEE ALSO

       bind(2)

BUGS

       Symbolic links on remote Unix systems will always have mode 0777 and a length of 8.

       After connecting to a TOPS-20 system, the mount point will contain only one directory, usually /n/ftp/PS:<ANONYMOUS>.  However, walking	to
       any valid directory on that machine will succeed and cause that directory entry to appear under the mount point.

       Ftpfs caches files and directories.  A directory will fall from the cache after 5 quiescent minutes or if the local user changes the direc-
       tory by writing or removing a file.  Otherwise, remote changes to the directory that occur after the directory has been cached might not be
       immediately visible.

       There  is no way to issue the appropriate commands to handle special synthetic FTP file types such as directories that automatically return
       a tar of their contents.

																	  FTPFS(4)

MOUNT_FTP(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      MOUNT_FTP(8)

NAME

     mount_ftp -- mount a FTP filesystem

SYNOPSIS

     mount_ftp [-i] [-o options] ftp://host[:port][/path] node

DESCRIPTION

     The mount_ftp command mounts a FTP-enabled server directory at ftp://host[:port][/path] at the mount point indicated by node.

     If the -i option is not used, all the required information to establish a login to the remote server must be available in the ftp URL,
     including username & password if needed.

     The user ID for all files and folders is set to the user's real user ID. The group ID for all files and directories is set to unknown, and
     the permissions default to read and execute for user, group and other.

     The options are:

     -i      Interactive mode, you are prompted for the username and password if you did not supply one in the url.

     -o      Options passed to mount(2) are specified with the -o option followed by a comma separated string of options. See the mount(8) man
	     page for possible options and their meanings. The rdonly option will be set even if it was not specified because mount_ftp does not
	     allow files to be opened with write access on servers.

     ftp://host[:port][/path]
	     The FTP-enabled server directory to mount as a volume. If port is not specified, then port 21 is used. If path is not specified, then
	     the path "/" is used.

     node    Path to mount point.

EXAMPLES

     The following example illustrates how to mount the FTP-enabled server directory ftp.apple.com/ at the mount point /Volumes/mntpnt/

	   mount_ftp ftp://ftp.apple.com/ /Volumes/mntpnt/

SEE ALSO

     mount(2), unmount(2), mount(8)

HISTORY

     The mount_ftp command first appeared Mac OS X Version 10.2.

RETURN VALUES

     0			mount_ftp successfully mounted the server directory.

     [ENOENT]		The server directory could not be mounted by mount_ftp because the node path is invalid.

     [ENODEV]		The server directory could not be mounted by mount_ftp because it is not FTP-enabled or because it does not exist, or
			because node does not have proper access.

     [ECANCELED]	The server directory could not be mounted by mount_ftp because the user did not provide proper authentication credentials.

BUGS

     mount_ftp only supports mounting read-only.

Mac OS X							   June 6, 2003 							  Mac OS X