ftpfs works fine for me.
I tried it against
ftp.sunet.se,
username=anaonymous,
[email protected]
and /n/ftp contains stuff.
Its worth realising ftpfs gets its directory listing by parsing the output
of the ls command in the ftp protocol, so it has parsers for a variety of
remote os's directory listing formats (vms and I think dec20 parsing code
still there :-).
It may be that your ftp server generates listings in a different format.
try running it with the -d option (debug) to see the directory listings
just in case they look odd/weird/non-existant.
-Steve