Questions tagged [curlftpfs]
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linux curlftpfs, password with symbols
I want to mount an FTP drive, but my FTP password contains "?!".
I enter the command:
curlftpfs myaccount:mypassword?!@thefptserver.com
but it gives me "bash: !@theftpsever.com: event not found"
How do I escape those characters?

Mars
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FTP with curlftpfs is extremely slow to the point it is impossible to work with
I mounted ftp location by using curlftpfs . The problem is that it is EXTREMELY slow to the point it is useless. The time of performing pretty much everything is about 10 seconds. It even includes getting any VIM command to work, including…

Łukasz Zaroda
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Input-Output error when reading directory
I have a problem with reading folders/files of a curlftpfs-mounted folder:
The server is using FTPES with explicit TLS/SSL and I have only reading permissions on it.
My system is using Mint15 (Ubuntu 13.04), curlftpfs 0.9.2, libcurl 7.29.0, fuse…

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curlftpfs interprets file date stamp incorrectly
If I log into my ftp server with ftp myserver.com and create a directory with:
ftp> mkdir testdir
The directory will have the correct time stamp. I can verify this with:
ftp> ls
I can also log into the server and run ls and get the same time…

L. D. James
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Permission of using curlftpfs on Ubuntu
I use
$sudo curlftpfs –o allow_other alpha:1234 @192.168.1.100 /home/alpha/share
to mount ftp folder as a local folder in Ubuntu 12.04
and then I can read and edit files in that folder
but I can't add a new file in this folder with Matlab
Here's…

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Git with curlftpfs
I want to use a FTP server as a git repo.
The only way I know to do that is mounting the ftp with curlftpfs.
But with curlftpfs it is not possible to do any git command.
Is there another solution for that?
I can´t use rsync because I have problems…

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Has curlftpfs a maximum size of mounted space and how can I skip it?
I mounted a ftpserver into my local OS:
curlftpfs user:pass@ftp.server.com /var/test/
I noticed using pydf that there is maximal size of this volume at about 7.5GB:
Filesystem Size Used…

kill0rz
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cURLFTPFS only lists the mounted directory. Reading a file is forbidden, writing a file is forbidden, creating new files is forbidden
I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this question, but when searching for curlftpfs in all sites on StackExchange, the majority of the returned results, lead to StackOverflow.
So, I have a server running Pure-FTPd with a virtual user named…

Emil Avramov
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linux curlftpfs, password with '@'
I want to mount an FTP drive, but my FTP password contains "@".
I enter the command:
curlftpfs myaccount:my@password@thefptserver.com mnt/my_ftp
But it gives me "Error connecting to ftp: Could not resolve host: password"
How do I fix this, no…

Gdfelt
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Set default disk space using curlftpfs
I have setup curlftpfs for my remote ftp server. I'd like now to tweak it a little and set the actual disk space available instead of the default magic number used (7.5T):
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used…

malat
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Download from curlftpfs mounted drive in PHP
I am trying to allow users to download files from FTP server mounted using CurlFtpfs on Cent OS 7.9.
My mounting configuration is as following :
curlftpfs#user:password@server/ebook /var/ebook/books fuse…

Ossama Nasser
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Dask +SLURM over ftp mount (CurlFtpFS)
So I have a working DASK/SLURM cluster of 4 raspberry Pis with a common NFS share, that I can run Python jobs succesfully.
However, I want to add some more arm devices to my cluster that do not support NFS mounts (Kernel module missing) so I wish to…

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Chmod fails when using fuse mount as media directory
I'm trying to use a remote FTP as a Django media source in docker.
I have mounted a directory:
/mnt/ftp_media
with curlftpfs:
curlftpfs -o allow_other user:pass@host /mnt/ftp_media
I've noticed that when trying to upload a file, it actually does…

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cURLFTPFS refuses to mount root directory
I'm trying to have full access to my CentOS8 VPS (ie accessing root directory /) through a mounted cURLFTPFS directory on my local Archlinux system. However no config seems to allow me to mount anything other than the user's home directory…

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curlftpfs copies file/dirnames wrongly
So there is an ftp server(which is run on Windows) with some data I need to sync on my vps. I have been doing this task succesfully using curlftpfs +rsync, but recently I had to add new directory to do syncing and I am getting very strange…

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