I've been running this for the past week in ftp mode to my site on Siteground.com and have not experienced any problems. I can open, create, modify, save and modify permissions from the finder (pathfinder). Outstanding product that I will purchase. Thanks for this wonderful application.

I dont even launch my ftp program anymore (Yummyftp).

This is more stable, faster and prettier than MacFusion, and the developers are friendly guys that answer emails. Yay! :)

@bitnix

ExpanDrive uses ssh sftp to connect to the server. After quick glance over at dreamhost it looks like they do support this but you need to setup sftp.

(http://wiki.dreamhost.com/SFTP)

Im not sure about your other errors, but the magnetk guys are quit helpful about bugs. You can report them here:

(http://getsatisfaction.com/magnetk/products/magnetk_expandrive)

Sadly enough, I've had this app for a while now, and it never got around to automatically mount both of my two webservers hosted at Dreamhost. I'm not sure if this is due to something at Dreamhost, or if it's ExpanDrive's fault, but the problem remains.

Often times, it indicates that my servers are online, but when I choose to reveal a server in Finder (from the Drive Manager), I get a Finder window with the server's name followed by .1, not being my real, online, server.

Logging out and in doesn't help. My server credentials are properly entered and it does in fact work, if I quit the program and reopen it again; then I'll be able to mount my online servers. So, probably it has something to do with automatic mounting when using ExpanDrive as a login item, but irregardless, one would expect this to work as it should (something I'm still wishing it did).

Does it not mount normal FTP servers?

No, it's SSH and SFTP only.

Sells for $9 on ExpanDrive's Facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/ExpanDrive/11387674398"><b>fan group</b></a> once it reaches 100 fans. I don't know for how long that drive will last, but it sure is a nice deal!

joh, the -36 error is our top priority right now. It seems to be related to poor network connections. This error seems to be related to poor network connections. There's only so much we can do when data doesn't make it between the client and the server. That said, the -36 error is a real usability problem for some people, and we're doing everything we can to improve the behavior.

i am experimenting with a 30 day demo of expandrive (1.1) and mounting a remote disk (my dreamhost account which runs linux i think) in the finder ... so far so good! beautiful wonderful looks just like a usb drive...

but ... copying files to it and back to the local drive : small txt type files seem to copy ok and smaller pdfs < 1mb but larger files (pdf mp3) are consistently producing an error -36 which i understand is an I/O error and failing to copy - so much for being just like a usb drive!

no word from support in response to my email so far.

I think I'll give it another chance:

"Lately I'm using ExpanDrive (http://www.magnetk.com/expandrive), which
just launched officially. Same transport (SSH/SFTP), but with very
aggressive caching and intelligent connection management under the
hood. Together, they make it way snappier than sshfs on even
high-latency links, and allow your mounts to stay live on finicky or
intermittent connections, even as you sleep your laptop one place and
wake it hours later on an entirely different network."

-- http://lists.macromates.com/pipermail/textmate/2008-February/024516.html

Does it not mount normal FTP servers? I tied to add a valid address with correct password and all information, but it didn't let me connect to that server, even if I knew (and tested) that it was indeed online and fully working...

Appreciating some enlightenment here.