MacFUSE is a great addition to the OS X system. One common usage of a FUSE is to mount a remote directory as a local volume, for easy access, and with MacFUSE in conjunction with sshfs (available at the same link), this is really easy to do.In my situation, however, the remote directory that I wanted to access was on a firewalled server that only allowed access through other machines on the some local network. I had access to various gateway machines, so access as such was not a problem, but it was a pain to have to hop through the gateway each time I need to transfer files to the firewalled server. Also, I could not use local applications to work on directly on files on the server, even if they supported ssh- and sftp-based editing.I messed around with trying to set up an ssh tunnel, but got nowhere. When I finally turned to MacFUSE as an alterntive, I had everything set up and running within minutes.
You will, of cour...
