Recently, James Henstridge from my team at Ubuntu One released u1ftp, a simple app to provide FTP access to Ubuntu One. It’s deliberately designed so that it works across platforms; whether you’re on Windows or OS X or Ubuntu or Kubuntu or Fedora or whatever, it should work for you, so you can access your Ubuntu One storage via FTP, and therefore if you want to you can mount your U1 storage as a drive in your file manager.
As James says, just download u1ftp-0.1.zip from
https://launchpad.net/u1ftp/+download, and then run it with
python u1ftp-0.1.zip, on any
platform*.
(You don’t need to unzip it!)
You can then use your file manager, or a dedicated FTP client, to
connect to localhost, port 2121, log in with your Ubuntu One
username and password, and then you have your Ubuntu One storage right
there. This should be useful if you don’t have Ubuntu One set up on a
particular machine or if it’s not yet available on that machine, for
headless servers, for copying lots of files into and out of Ubuntu One
all in one go; let us know what you’re doing with it!
u1ftp on Ubuntu
u1ftp on Fedora
u1ftp on Windows
u1ftp on Mac OS X
u1ftp on a headless Linux server
~~~~ {style=”font-size: 0.7em”} $ sudo apt-get install curlftpfs # or install your own way
it installs…
$ wget https://launchpad.net/u1ftp/trunk/0.1/+download/u1ftp-0.1.zip
—2012-07-17 13:01:10— https://launchpad.net/u1ftp/trunk/0.1/+download/u1ftp-0.1.zip
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 289783 (283K) [application/zip]
Saving to: u1ftp-0.1.zip'
2012-07-17 13:01:11 (1.08 MB/s) -u1ftp-0.1.zip’ saved [289783/289783]
$ python u1ftp-0.1.zip
Listening on ftp://127.0.0.1:2121/
in a different terminal, mount your U1 storage in a folder…
$ mkdir u1storage $ curlftpfs ftp://my.u1.email%40address:myU1password@localhost:2121/ u1storage/
or use netrc(5) to keep password secret
you may be asked to create and enter a keyring password in the u1ftp terminal
$ ls u1storage/ deja-dup_faith Music_Audiobooks Pictures - Nexus S Documents Music_Everything Purchased Music Scratch Thunderbird Attachments Sent to Ubuntu One Ubuntu One
do whatever you want with your U1 storage…
$ fusermount -u u1storage/ # unmount the folder ~~~~