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Using Unison and FTP hosts

Install unison (and unison-gtk) and curlftpfs:
```
aptitude install curlftpfs unison unison-gtk
```
Setup a local mount path:
```
mkdir /mnt/shared
```
Modify /etc/fstab to contain the fuse entry:
```
curlftpfs#user:password@host /mnt/shared fuse rw,uid=1000,user,noauto,allow_other 0 0
```
Replace uid=1000 with the number of your primary user. Issue the command id to get the uid value.
To be able to mount the shared directory as a normal user, add your user to the fuse group: adduser USER fuse
Sometimes it is also necessary to allow fuse to be mounted by other users, edit /etc/fuse.conf to have the option user_allow_other.
Create a synchronization directory in your home: mkdir ~/syn
Mount the directory (it is not mounted automatically): mount /mnt/shared
Start unison: unison-gtk and specify ~/syn as local and /mnt/shared as remote site.