sshfs Alternatives

sshfs is described as 'SSHFS allows you to mount a remote filesystem using SFTP. Most SSH servers support and enable this SFTP access by default, so SSHFS is very simple to use - there's nothing to do on the server-side' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to sshfs for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Web-based. The best sshfs alternative is MobaXterm, which is free. Other great apps like sshfs are ForkLift, WinFsp, WebDrive and SFTP Drive.

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  1. MobaXterm icon
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    MobaXterm is an enhanced terminal app that brings the advanced features of a Unix-like command-line to Windows. It takes the power of Cygwin and wraps it in a sleek, visual interface that's super easy to use, lightweight and portable.

    154 MobaXterm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  2. ForkLift icon
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    Dual pane macOS file manager featuring SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, cloud drives, real-time activity view, folder sync, drag-and-drop file transfers, preview panel, multi-rename, batch operations, server connections, text editing, themes, and tagging for efficient workflows.

    136 ForkLift alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  3. WinFsp icon
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    WinFsp, Windows File System Proxy, is a set of software components for Windows computers that allows the creation of user mode file systems. In this sense it is similar to FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), which provides the same functionality on UNIX-like computers.

    15 WinFsp alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. WebDrive icon
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    Put the cloud on your desktop; access Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and more. WebDrive lets you edit files on corporate SFTP and SharePoint Servers as easily as editing any file on your computer.

    60 WebDrive alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  5. SFTP Drive icon
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    An easy-to-use utility that mounts remote file systems as Windows drives via SFTP. Once connected, you can browse and work with files as if they were stored on your local machine.

    20 SFTP Drive alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. win-sshfs icon
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    win-sshfs is a SSH(SFTP) filesystem made using Dokan and SSH.NET library that allows you to mount remote computers via SFTP protocol like windows network drives. You may also need to acquire Dokan DLL from: .

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  7.  5 likes

    Dokan SSHFS is a program that mounts remote file systems using SSH. Dokan SSHFS depends on Dokan Library which you can find on the application's website.

    18 Dokan SSHFS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. e-nautia icon
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    e-nautia gives a dedicated space to store and share files, communicate with friends or any contacts and manage e-mails.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. FTPDrive icon
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    Create virtual drive which links to configured FTP servers. In difference from other ftp-client this allows works with FTP from any program(even if it has no built-in ftp-client). No more external FTP-clients but only one ordinary disk in "My...

    35 FTPDrive alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    SSHFS-Win is a minimal port of SSHFS to Windows. Under the hood it uses Cygwin for the POSIX environment and WinFsp for the FUSE functionality.

    12 SSHFS-Win alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  11. CurlFtpFS icon
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    CurlFtpFS is a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl. It is the simplest and very convenient way to work with remote FTP sites. No special FTP GUI apps is necessary and credentials can be stored in Netrc file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  12. File transfers using:

    • FTP

    • FTPS (Implicit and Explicit FTP over SSL).

    • SFTP (FTP over SSH). Login with password or RSA/DSA OpenSSL (Traditional SSLeay PEM) or ConnectBot (PKCS#8 PEM) private key.

    • multiple file and directory transfers

    • resume transfers support

    • clean and.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
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