6 ms·

Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

34 points by signaler 11y ago

bsimpson 11y ago
I'm surprised there's still a market for innovation in FTP clients. Most everyone I know does automated deployments now with Heroku, AppEngine, git push, etc..
- pupppet 11y ago
  For every git project there are probably a few thousand regular folk happily moving files to their WP site via FTP.
- devonbleak 11y ago
  That's great for managing code, not so great for ad hoc management of content/data/files.
- CSDude 11y ago
  FTP is useful for more than just deployment, just regular file transfers are much more easier and still in use by many.
  - bsimpson 11y ago
    I presumed so, I just can't remember the last time I saw anyone using FTP.
    - LeoPanthera 11y ago
      Maybe not FTP, but I use SFTP all the time.
- a3n 11y ago
  There's a lot of legacy in the world.
- pbreit 11y ago
  I'm surprised FTP hasn't been built in to Finder/FileExplorer yet.
  - wlesieutre 11y ago
    It is, but it's (at least historically) not well implemented. http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-ftp-into-a-server-with-finder--cms-21885 http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-ftp-into-a... Used to be that the whole Finder would hang while waiting for a response from the server. I haven't tried recently to say whether that's still true.
- wiffleballmike 11y ago
  There are many workplaces (newspaper design desk) where FTP is still the goto for sending files too big for email. Any tools to makes the experience as simple as possible are more than welcome.
- AnthonBerg 11y ago
  It does sftp too, which is a very nice filetransfer lingua franca kind of. Samba etc. are a pain to deal with so I tend to just use sftp for everything, even within the office. Cyberduck also does S3 and the cloudy stuff.
calebm 11y ago
I like that it sounds like "Mountain Dew", and think it will succeed for this reason.
volaski 11y ago
I'm not familiar with this space but is this the first of its kind? Or are there better ones? I actually think I may want to use it to manage my s3 assets. Would be helpful to know if there are alternatives and why this is better
- benjaminl 11y ago
  I am a happy customer of ExpanDrive (http://www.expandrive.com/ http://www.expandrive.com/) which is very similar, except that it is cross platform and looks like it support more back-ends. ExpandDrive recently greatly enhanced their product by providing background uploads.
  - blacksmith_tb 11y ago
    Cyberduck (and apparently Mtn. Duck, judging by the screenshots) is equally cross-platform; which is to say, runs on recent-ish versions of OSX and Windows. Expandrive looks decent, but for my purposes fuse is good enough, and free.
- signaler 11y ago
  There's quite a few programs like this, and I've tried them all. What makes this look promising is the peeps behind Cyberduck fame are creating it. I always wanted that feature in Cyberduck, where you can mount any arbitrary legacy file system. All the others I've tried are half-baked attempts and horribly buggy.
- LeoPanthera 11y ago
  Transmit can also do this: https://panic.com/transmit/ https://panic.com/transmit/
- nosuchthing 11y ago
  I'd assume this is some form of iSCSI or SMB/samba?
nticompass 11y ago
Currently I am using http://www.swish-sftp.org/ http://www.swish-sftp.org/ on Windows and http://macfusionapp.org/ http://macfusionapp.org/ (via https://osxfuse.github.io/ https://osxfuse.github.io/, see also https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/SSHFS https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/SSHFS) on OS X to mount SFTP servers. Mountain Duck looks promising. For whatever reason the current solutions for SSHFS on Windows/Mac are slightly out of date.
loomi 11y ago
Nice, the developers of Mountain Duck won the Swiss Open Source Award for their Cyberduck just yesterday! http://www.ossawards.ch/ http://www.ossawards.ch/
- Ch_livecodingtv 11y ago
  Saw this in a blog. They deserve it.
dogma1138 11y ago
Windows had support for mounting FTP, and WebDAV(HTTP/HTTPS) natively since Windows XP. The "blob" storage support however was pretty damn needed especially considering that you had to usually install dedicated software for each service you use to get that ability before, and the few universal projects that existed have so far been mostly abandoned.

34 points by signaler 11y ago

I'm surprised there's still a market for innovation in FTP clients. Most everyone I know does automated deployments now with Heroku, AppEngine, git push, etc..

pupppet 11y ago
For every git project there are probably a few thousand regular folk happily moving files to their WP site via FTP.
devonbleak 11y ago
That's great for managing code, not so great for ad hoc management of content/data/files.
CSDude 11y ago
FTP is useful for more than just deployment, just regular file transfers are much more easier and still in use by many.
- bsimpson 11y ago
  I presumed so, I just can't remember the last time I saw anyone using FTP.
  - LeoPanthera 11y ago
    Maybe not FTP, but I use SFTP all the time.
a3n 11y ago
There's a lot of legacy in the world.
pbreit 11y ago
I'm surprised FTP hasn't been built in to Finder/FileExplorer yet.
- wlesieutre 11y ago
  It is, but it's (at least historically) not well implemented. http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-ftp-into-a-server-with-finder--cms-21885 http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-ftp-into-a... Used to be that the whole Finder would hang while waiting for a response from the server. I haven't tried recently to say whether that's still true.
wiffleballmike 11y ago
There are many workplaces (newspaper design desk) where FTP is still the goto for sending files too big for email. Any tools to makes the experience as simple as possible are more than welcome.
AnthonBerg 11y ago
It does sftp too, which is a very nice filetransfer lingua franca kind of. Samba etc. are a pain to deal with so I tend to just use sftp for everything, even within the office. Cyberduck also does S3 and the cloudy stuff.

calebm 11y ago

I like that it sounds like "Mountain Dew", and think it will succeed for this reason.

volaski 11y ago

I'm not familiar with this space but is this the first of its kind? Or are there better ones? I actually think I may want to use it to manage my s3 assets. Would be helpful to know if there are alternatives and why this is better

benjaminl 11y ago
I am a happy customer of ExpanDrive (http://www.expandrive.com/ http://www.expandrive.com/) which is very similar, except that it is cross platform and looks like it support more back-ends. ExpandDrive recently greatly enhanced their product by providing background uploads.
- blacksmith_tb 11y ago
  Cyberduck (and apparently Mtn. Duck, judging by the screenshots) is equally cross-platform; which is to say, runs on recent-ish versions of OSX and Windows. Expandrive looks decent, but for my purposes fuse is good enough, and free.
signaler 11y ago
There's quite a few programs like this, and I've tried them all. What makes this look promising is the peeps behind Cyberduck fame are creating it. I always wanted that feature in Cyberduck, where you can mount any arbitrary legacy file system. All the others I've tried are half-baked attempts and horribly buggy.
LeoPanthera 11y ago
Transmit can also do this: https://panic.com/transmit/ https://panic.com/transmit/
nosuchthing 11y ago
I'd assume this is some form of iSCSI or SMB/samba?

nticompass 11y ago

Currently I am using http://www.swish-sftp.org/ http://www.swish-sftp.org/ on Windows and http://macfusionapp.org/ http://macfusionapp.org/ (via https://osxfuse.github.io/ https://osxfuse.github.io/, see also https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/SSHFS https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/SSHFS) on OS X to mount SFTP servers. Mountain Duck looks promising. For whatever reason the current solutions for SSHFS on Windows/Mac are slightly out of date.

loomi 11y ago

Nice, the developers of Mountain Duck won the Swiss Open Source Award for their Cyberduck just yesterday! http://www.ossawards.ch/ http://www.ossawards.ch/

Ch_livecodingtv 11y ago
Saw this in a blog. They deserve it.

dogma1138 11y ago

Windows had support for mounting FTP, and WebDAV(HTTP/HTTPS) natively since Windows XP. The "blob" storage support however was pretty damn needed especially considering that you had to usually install dedicated software for each service you use to get that ability before, and the few universal projects that existed have so far been mostly abandoned.