glosoli.blogspot.com— There's a free tool from Novell that lets you map a drive via FTP or WebDav. Great for maintaining your hosted web site. Makes your favourite ftp client obsolete.
Oct 14, 2005View in Crawl 4
NetDrive is not free. The agency I work for inquired about using NetDrive for a project and this is the response received from Novell on January 9, 2006:You must have purchased or purchase Netware 6 or iFolder in order to use Novell NetDrive. Call me if you need further help and we can connect you with a Tech Specialist.Regards,MelissaMelissa NiuGovernment Inside SalesNovell, Inc. <a class="user" href="http://www.novell.com">http://www.novell.com</a>mniu@novell.com(801) 861-1618 phone(801) 861-6317 fax
oh, oops, that's already been linked, and i can't edit the post (i'm brand new to this)... sorry... looks like this is the only Digg post that gschultz2 has commented on... leads me to believe he's on some sort of mission. could that link from novell be all we need to see to justify using this software?
groovenectar: very interesting link! Here's my solution using the OpenSSH client and Netdrive to map an ftp connection to a drive letter for secure transfer (if you can ssh and ftp into the same box, otherwise not advisable) - I'm using Windows XP and this is working like a charm!1. The SSH client. Find it here: <a class="user" href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sshwindows/setupssh381-20040709.zip?download">http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sshwindows/setupssh381-20040709.zip?download</a>That's a download for the OpenSSH client for windows avoiding the whole huge cygwin installation. Install it and then for convenience add the path of the ssh binary's directory to your PATH env variable. If you don't know how to do this, just google it.2. Install Netdrive - plenty of links for the installer above in previous comments.3. Create the Socks4 proxy with ssh to your server. Since the location of my ssh binary is in my path I just push the window key and the r key to get a run dialog and type:ssh -C user@myhost.com -D 30128this opens an ssh terminal to your server and a socks4 proxy connection also accessible locally on port 30128. Now you have to keep this window open for your connection to stay live.4. Setup Netdrive For the Proxy. Right click on your tray icon and select 'Program Settings' and click the Proxy-FTP tab. Check Enable Proxy Server, and then select SOCKS v5 - I know, I know - it's a socks4 connection, but this works, trust me. Proxy server Address is 127.0.0.1 and port is 30128. User and pass are blank, and I have checked use PASV.5. Setup your site in Netdrive. The server type could be anything pretty much, but I wouldn't reccomend using differing hosts for you ssh connection and your ftp netdrive connection since your ftp will then be unprotected after your ssh host. When you have them on the same machine they are most secure together.This might seem like a long winded process, but in actuality it takes 2 seconds to create the tunnel, and then another 2 to connect to your host with netdrive, works great. If you want to get the terminal window out of the way, download a program called 'The Wonderful Icon' a great little utility which allows you to minimize windows to the systray and do many other convenient things.
Gnome/Nautilus has game when it comes to networking: SSH/FTP/SFTP, or just about anything else, all built in. It has problems with permissions still, and gedit as a web editing tool is still falls slightly short, but I prefer it over windows any day.My choice for windows would be jEdit and Filezilla, because they're both free and offer the things I need. I get tired of keeping multiple copies on my computer with FTP though.
There is an open-source solution for this - it involves using sshfs and fuse, along with a samba server. Basically, you mount the remote filesystem as a local folder via fuse and sshfs, then share out that folder using samba. There's a great article on how to do it here:<a class="user" href="http://www.wynia.org/wordpress/2007/02/08/sshfs-on">http://www.wynia.org/wordpress/2007/02/08/sshfs-on</a> ...Once I had it working on a native third-party linux box, I tried my hand running it in a Linux VM on my XP laptop (using VirtualBox as the VM software). The Linux guest is a standard Fedora install.Works great! It may seem a bit like using a hammer on a pushpin, but I can't complain about the stability or the cost.
alecksOct 14, 2005
how do you do it in windows w/o IE? net use x: ftp://user:pass@something.com??
slowspinOct 14, 2005
nice. I didn't even know Novell was still around... :-0
tarunOct 14, 2005
Mirror: <a class="user" href="http://www.crossplatform.no/download/ndrv41862.exe">http://www.crossplatform.no/download/ndrv41862.exe</a>
pk4ipOct 14, 2005
Any one prefer this over webdrive?
ech0Oct 15, 2005
why so much hate against Novell?
piratemonkeyOct 16, 2005Submitter
License update: Novell wants you to download this.<a class="user" href="http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/qna/999.html">http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/qna/999.html</a>
gschultz2Jan 9, 2006
NetDrive is not free. The agency I work for inquired about using NetDrive for a project and this is the response received from Novell on January 9, 2006:You must have purchased or purchase Netware 6 or iFolder in order to use Novell NetDrive. Call me if you need further help and we can connect you with a Tech Specialist.Regards,MelissaMelissa NiuGovernment Inside SalesNovell, Inc. <a class="user" href="http://www.novell.com">http://www.novell.com</a>mniu@novell.com(801) 861-1618 phone(801) 861-6317 fax
groovenectarJan 26, 2006
@gschultz2we really have no way to verify that this letter is real, though i have seen it posted at a few blogs. maybe by you. perhaps the people at webdrive don't want netdrive to be distributed, but the people at Novell seem to have no problem encouraging people to distribute it on the net:<a class="user" href="http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/qna/999.html">http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/qna/999.html</a>
groovenectarJan 26, 2006
oh, oops, that's already been linked, and i can't edit the post (i'm brand new to this)... sorry... looks like this is the only Digg post that gschultz2 has commented on... leads me to believe he's on some sort of mission. could that link from novell be all we need to see to justify using this software?
diggdaveMar 23, 2006
groovenectar: very interesting link! Here's my solution using the OpenSSH client and Netdrive to map an ftp connection to a drive letter for secure transfer (if you can ssh and ftp into the same box, otherwise not advisable) - I'm using Windows XP and this is working like a charm!1. The SSH client. Find it here: <a class="user" href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sshwindows/setupssh381-20040709.zip?download">http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sshwindows/setupssh381-20040709.zip?download</a>That's a download for the OpenSSH client for windows avoiding the whole huge cygwin installation. Install it and then for convenience add the path of the ssh binary's directory to your PATH env variable. If you don't know how to do this, just google it.2. Install Netdrive - plenty of links for the installer above in previous comments.3. Create the Socks4 proxy with ssh to your server. Since the location of my ssh binary is in my path I just push the window key and the r key to get a run dialog and type:ssh -C user@myhost.com -D 30128this opens an ssh terminal to your server and a socks4 proxy connection also accessible locally on port 30128. Now you have to keep this window open for your connection to stay live.4. Setup Netdrive For the Proxy. Right click on your tray icon and select 'Program Settings' and click the Proxy-FTP tab. Check Enable Proxy Server, and then select SOCKS v5 - I know, I know - it's a socks4 connection, but this works, trust me. Proxy server Address is 127.0.0.1 and port is 30128. User and pass are blank, and I have checked use PASV.5. Setup your site in Netdrive. The server type could be anything pretty much, but I wouldn't reccomend using differing hosts for you ssh connection and your ftp netdrive connection since your ftp will then be unprotected after your ssh host. When you have them on the same machine they are most secure together.This might seem like a long winded process, but in actuality it takes 2 seconds to create the tunnel, and then another 2 to connect to your host with netdrive, works great. If you want to get the terminal window out of the way, download a program called 'The Wonderful Icon' a great little utility which allows you to minimize windows to the systray and do many other convenient things.
413xJul 17, 2006
SftpDrive ( <a class="user" href="http://sftpdrive.com">http://sftpdrive.com</a> ) also can map SFTP to a windows drive letter. The program is commercial, but there's a 6 weeks trial period.
codeguydotcomSep 20, 2006
Also try Free FTPDrive:<a class="user" href="http://www.download.com/FTPDrive/3000-2160_4-10579258.html?tag=pdp_prod">http://www.download.com/FTPDrive/3000-2160_4-10579258.html?tag=pdp_prod</a>
mutantJan 15, 2007
WTF are you talking about? WinSCP doesn't MAP a drive in windows, it only gives you an interface.
bradlis7Apr 2, 2007
Gnome/Nautilus has game when it comes to networking: SSH/FTP/SFTP, or just about anything else, all built in. It has problems with permissions still, and gedit as a web editing tool is still falls slightly short, but I prefer it over windows any day.My choice for windows would be jEdit and Filezilla, because they're both free and offer the things I need. I get tired of keeping multiple copies on my computer with FTP though.
vglassAug 3, 2007
another free client to checkout is Red Drive. supports FTP, FTPS, SFTP and WebDAV protocols.<a class="user" href="http://www.jscape.com/reddrive/">http://www.jscape.com/reddrive/</a>
bshenskyMar 5, 2008
There is an open-source solution for this - it involves using sshfs and fuse, along with a samba server. Basically, you mount the remote filesystem as a local folder via fuse and sshfs, then share out that folder using samba. There's a great article on how to do it here:<a class="user" href="http://www.wynia.org/wordpress/2007/02/08/sshfs-on">http://www.wynia.org/wordpress/2007/02/08/sshfs-on</a> ...Once I had it working on a native third-party linux box, I tried my hand running it in a Linux VM on my XP laptop (using VirtualBox as the VM software). The Linux guest is a standard Fedora install.Works great! It may seem a bit like using a hammer on a pushpin, but I can't complain about the stability or the cost.
guinpinMay 4, 2008
No, that does not work. Returns an error:System error 67 has occurred.The network name cannot be found.