I finally threw my hands up with this problem.

I'm now using the smb protocol (which both windows and macs support
out of the box) to mount my windows drive on my macbook. Much more
straightforward.

I guess this software wasn't intended for mac users connecting to
windows boxes...shame...

-Clayton

On Mar 7, 1:51 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]
ip.biz> wrote:
> Here's a brief summary of the issue I'm having:
>
> I'm connecting (using Macfusion via Macfuse) to my windows xp pc from
> my
> macbook. I can successfully mount my windows sftp home folder on my
> macbook.
>
> If I create a new folder on my macbook and drag that folder (using
> finder) to my mounted drive to copy it into my home directory (on my
> windows box), everything works fine and the folder is successfully
> copied.
>
> However, if I create a 'file' on my macbook and do the same thing
> (using finder), I get a file I/O error and the file won't copy (most
> likely due to acl / extended attributes issues?)
>
> Even more interesting, if I use the terminal (using the 'cp' command)
> to do the same thing, everything works (i.e., I can successfully copy
> a file from my macbook to my windows pc through my mounted drive using
> macfuse and macfusion).
>
> What on earth is going on? Why does it work through terminal and not
> through finder? Also, why can I move a folder through both finder and
> terminal, but only a file through terminal???
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I use only the '-o defer_permissions' flag in the 'extra options'
> field for the macfusion interface, which seems to be necessary in my
> case (otherwise I can't browse any of my subfolders on my windows box
> when the drive is mounted).
>
> Thanks in advance.
> -Clayton
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