FTPFS

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FTPFS refers to file systems that support access to a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server through standard file system application programming interfaces (APIs).

In Linux systems, FTPFS is implemented by an obsoleted Linux kernel module that allows the user to mount a FTP server onto the local filesystem. It seems to have been replaced by LUFS, and later FUSE (using curlftpfs).

In Mac OS X, FTPFS is implemented by a user-mode NFS server that acts as an FTP client, implementing a read-only FTP file system.

For Windows XP, this functionality is partially provided by the "Network Places" shell facility; a network place is a link to either an FTP server or a WebDAV server and can be accessed in Windows Explorer as just another network filesystem. This does not provide transparent access through the lowest-level Win32 file system APIs, however. Similar functionality is provided by the South River Technologies program WebDrive, which can in addition make FTP folders available to command-line programs, as it does provide transparent access through the Win32 file system APIs.

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