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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7-27-2007 @ 3:52PM
Dalton said...
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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7-27-2007 @ 3:53PM
Erica Sadun said...
With Apple TV, it's much easier just to use AFP
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7-27-2007 @ 9:38PM
Aron Trimble said...
*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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