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From: Ian Gregory on 13 Jul 2010 18:12
On 2010-07-13, SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> When I use the finders go, connect to server or mount a volume from
> the terminal, the volume appears to be read only. (i.e. drag/drop
> onto the volume doesn't work...

The man page for mount_ftp has a BUGS section which reads "mount_ftp
only supports mounting read-only". The HISTORY section says that the
command first appeared in 10.2 and if it hasn't been "fixed" by now then
I suspect it never will be, but in my opinion the only "bug" is that
mount_ftp was implemented at all.

Ian

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From: Wes Groleau on 13 Jul 2010 18:36
On 07-13-2010 18:11, SpreadTooThin wrote:
> On Jul 13, 3:15 pm, JF Mezei<jfmezei.spam...(a)vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> Apple didn't complete its ftp support implementation, so it is read-only
>> for ftp mounts. Basically useless.

I'd put it yet another way: Apple chose to omit writable FTP
from OS X when they couldn't make it stable in OS 9

> but the volume IS writable from say the terminal?

No

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From: nospam on 13 Jul 2010 18:38
In article <i1ipoh$fd1$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau
<Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote:

> >> Apple didn't complete its ftp support implementation, so it is read-only
> >> for ftp mounts. Basically useless.
>
> I'd put it yet another way: Apple chose to omit writable FTP
> from OS X when they couldn't make it stable in OS 9

others figured out how. why can't apple?
From: Wes Groleau on 13 Jul 2010 18:48
On 07-13-2010 18:38, nospam wrote:
> <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote:
>
>>>> Apple didn't complete its ftp support implementation, so it is read-only
>>>> for ftp mounts. Basically useless.
>>
>> I'd put it yet another way: Apple chose to omit writable FTP
>> from OS X when they couldn't make it stable in OS 9
>
> others figured out how. why can't apple?

That's what puzzles me. So many things Microsoft copies from Apple, but
not as well, yet this one they had working ages ago.

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From: David Empson on 13 Jul 2010 21:47
SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 13, 3:15 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam...(a)vaxination.ca> wrote:
> > SpreadTooThin wrote:
> > > When I use the finders go, connect to server or mount a volume from
> > > the terminal, the volume appears to be read only. (i.e. drag/drop
> > > onto the volume doesn't work...
> >
> > I'll phrase the response differently from what others have written:
> >
> > Apple didn't complete its ftp support implementation, so it is read-only
> > for ftp mounts. Basically useless.
>
> but the volume IS writable from say the terminal?

No. The volume is mounted with read only access, so no part of the
system can write to it.

(You can use the 'ftp' command line tool to connect to an FTP server and
write to it, but that is a separate mechanism using standard FTP
commands, not a virtual file system.)

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David Empson
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