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TUAW Tip: Put iPhone's File System onto your Desktop with sshfs
TUAW has talked before about sshfs, the secure shell file system, and MacFUSE, the OS X implementation of FUSE (File-system in USErspace). So it's not huge news that you can use MacFUSE/sshfs to access the files on your iPhone but it might be an option that you've overlooked. It's certainly convenient. You can open a Finder window and treat your iPhone as another disk drive.
To make this happen, you must first enable ssh on your iPhone. Then, install MacFUSE and run sshfs, which will prompt you for the Server name (enter the iPhone's IP address) and Username (use "root"). Authenticate and, boom, you're good to go. The iPhone appears in your Finder source list as a new connected device.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dalton said 3:52PM on 7-27-2007
This would be useful with AppleTV, too, if you've installed one of the third party media managers.
Which I haven't. I would like to, but I'm not going to open the thing up.
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Erica Sadun said 3:53PM on 7-27-2007
With Apple TV, it's much easier just to use AFP
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Aron Trimble said 9:38PM on 7-27-2007
*sigh* So, I know ssh works because I can ssh using terminal
I know sshfs works because I just used it with my other mac *points*
However, sshfs + iPhone = not working... *sigh*
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