Mount FTP share locally in Linux using ftpfs

Mount FTP share locally in Linux using ftpfs

 To mount a remote FTP account to locally on Linux system- 

1)Install required Packages

2)Mounting system with remote details

3)Testing

1) - Install fuse-curlftpfs package on you Linux system.

2)- After package installation need to create a mount point(directory) and mount ftp server data using curlftpfs command, to do this you must have ftp details. 

Consider below details.
 
 ftp User: altmish
 ftp Password: tech2smooth
 ftp Host:- ftp.tech2smooth.in
 Mount Directory:-  /usr/ftp_data

Create the mount point and mount ftp account data.
[root@localhost /]#mkdir /usr/ftp_data
[root@localhost /]#curlftpfs -o altmish:tech2smooth@ftp.tech2smooth.in /usr/ftp_data

Note: Above mounted data will be accessible only for the user who mounted the system. To make it public-ally accessible use below.


[root@localhost /]#curlftpfs -o allow_other altmish:tech2smooth@ftp.tech2smooth.in /usr/ftp_data

 3)- Go to ftp data directory

[root@localhost /]#cd /usr/ftp_data

[root@localhost /]#ls -ltrh