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From: SpreadTooThin on 14 Jul 2010 11:30
On Jul 13, 7:47 pm, demp...(a)actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
> SpreadTooThin <bjobrie...(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.)
>
indeed... but what a disappointment to have to do so.
Read only... tsk tsk.

> --
> David Empson
> demp...(a)actrix.gen.nz

From: mvip on 26 Jul 2010 07:57
You can mount FTP images with read/write using FuseFS. You can either
download and install it separate, or you can use Transmit from Panic to
do it the easy way.

On 2010-07-13 22:08:01 +0200, Tom Harrington said:

> In article
> <68d27b4f-16d7-475b-ad66-7505db85057b(a)d37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
> 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...
>
> i.e. working as designed, unfortunately.


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