Mounting SFTP on MacOSX
Linux filebrowsers often are capable of mounting a vast amount of remove filesystems as if they were local folders. That usually works with FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, SMB and others.
Finder, on the other hand, is capable of doing the same for FTP, WebDAV, SMB and AFP - but not via SSH with SFTP.
To do so, you could spend some money for CyberDuck - or you go with the solution I will describe here for free.
Getting all the stuff
You will need three things: MacFuse, FUSE for OSX and Mac Fusion.
Additionally, you need to install sshfs. This is easily done by running "brew install fuse4x sshfs".
Mounting your first SSHFS
After installing all of them, open a terminal and enter "sshfs --version" which should output something along the following lines:
$ sshfs --version
SSHFS version 2.4.0
fuse4x library version: FUSE 2.8.7 / fuse4x 0.10.0
fuse: no mount point
Once you have SSHFS installed, you can start MacFusion.
Click on the little "+" in the bottom left corner, choose "SSHFS" and enter the connection details (A descriptive name, host, user, password and optional: path to the initial folder).
The new mount should show up in the list of the main window now and a click on "Mount" should bring it up in Finder as well.
