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macosx_sierra.md

Issues with Mac OS X Sierra

1. Could not ssh from my Mac to my usual linux servers

The solution was to add this to my ssh config:

PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-dss
2. Macfusion says: "You can’t use this version of the application “Macfusion.app” with this version of macOS."

Well, the last commit on github was in 2008 so one day it would stop working... The alternatives:

Installing SSHFS is not straightforward. One must download the source, install the dependencies (libfuse, glib, ...) and then config && make && make install. Also, the Homebrew formula of SSHFS - which in turn install osxfuse - is outdated (as the time of this writing, sshfs-2.5.0 and osxfuse-2.8.3 from 2014, while the latest versions are sshdfs-2.8 and osxfuse-3.5.3).

After reading the Macfusion issue #52 on the project page, i found a fork of Macfusion that works with Mac OS X Sierra. It's the easiest way of getting mount to work with ssh without the hassle of having to brew install glib and other tons of software.

OK. I resintalled Mac OS X Sierra. I only had to:

  1. Install (osxfuse) with the compatibility layer and its project SSHFS
  2. Install a release from this fork of Macfusion
3. NTFS and Mac OS X

An NTFS partition could be mounted on Mac OS X but i could not write to it. Solution: Mounty, a very tiny app that re-mounts the NTFS partition in read-write mode. Clean and simple.

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