I'm a fan of the fish protocol using konqueror (fish://user@host) on Linux. Can I set up the same thing on the Mac? Ideally, having it integrated with the Finder would be great.
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OSX includes sftp. OSX's Terminal can open SFTP connections, open Terminal and hit cmd-shift-K. Lets you save ssh, sftp, telnet and ftp sessions. Not finder integrated.
For a more finder integrated way of using a file system over ssh have a look at http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ and http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/MACFUSE_FS_SSHFS.
The fish
thing seems to be using SFTP, so Macfusion might work (configure it for SSH). But not having a Mac, I can't test.
You might also like ExpanDrive (www.expandrive.com/mac), which allows you to mount SFTP connections like other network shares or removable drives. It's commercial software that uses MacFUSE, but has quite a lot of useful improvements over the basic MacFUSE SFTP functionality.
The finder allows you to make (S)FTP sessions.
'Connect to server' allows a range of protocols:
smb:// ftp:// afp:// etc...
I just can't remember which menu it is off the top of my head.
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The menu is go...|connect to server But in Yosemite, fish and sftp are not recognised protocols. Works from terminal, but not finder Jun 18, 2018 at 9:46