{"id":55,"date":"2008-12-07T19:16:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T23:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/?p=55"},"modified":"2010-05-09T09:38:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T14:38:32","slug":"mount-a-ftp-share-in-ubuntu-as-a-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/2008\/12\/07\/mount-a-ftp-share-in-ubuntu-as-a-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount a FTP share in Ubuntu as a folder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are several GUI interfaces for FTP on Linux, such as gFTP and FileZilla. But what if you need to use the powerful Linux command lines on an FTP share? This article will help you mount a FTP share as a folder so you can use your regular Linux tools (grep,nano,mv,rm,ls,etc.) on a FTP share. This can be accomplished using <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/curlftpfs.sourceforge.net\/\">cURLFTPfs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t already have curlftpfs installed, install it with <strong>sudo apt-get install curlftpfs<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Replacing the appropriate settings, mount the share with <strong>sudo curlftpfs -o umask=0777,uid=1000,gid=1000,allow_other ftp:\/\/username:password@your.ftpserver.here \/media\/ftpmountedhere<\/strong>. Make sure that the location to mount to is already created and readable and writable by all users.<\/li>\n<li>To make this permanent, add it to the end of \/etc\/init.d\/rc.local to be able to access the share after reboot.<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several GUI interfaces for FTP on Linux, such as gFTP and FileZilla. But what if you need to use the powerful Linux command lines on an FTP share? This article will help you mount a FTP share as a folder so you can use your regular Linux tools (grep,nano,mv,rm,ls,etc.) on a FTP share. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[278,269,259,283,288,284,862,287,279,285,280,286,282,281,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}