Cloud drive service brings us a lot of convenience (for example, access to and download files anytime and anywhere, save a mass of local disk space, own almost unlimited cloud disk accounts to get an unlimited expansion of web disk space), but it is cumbersome and inefficient to upload and download files without a desktop client and only using the web browser. As a result, often in order to manage your files in the cloud, you had to download a bunch of different software (official client), even for different services you have to repeat this step.

In some cases, you may need to frequently access and use files and folders stored on other PCs, servers or network storage devices. Thus, we might as well consider mapping them to local disks for ease of use. As we all know, the built-in "Map Network Drive" of Windows can only map devices in the same LAN; and its "Add Network Location" feature is not powerful enough either. This time, you can give Network Drive Control a try.

Mountain Duck is a commercial sister product of the free Cyberduck. It is based on Cyberduck's solid open-source foundation and was released after a long period of close beta test. Mountain Duck supports connecting to any server you want over all major protocols, allows users to mount servers and cloud storage services as local disks in the computer's Windows Explorer/File Manager/Finder. This way, you can open and edit files remotely from any local program, just as convenient as working with local files.

CrossFTP is a powerful, stable, easy to use, portable and cross-platform FTP/FXP/SFTP/FTPS/Cloud Storage client software developed by CrossFTP Software from China. It was written in Java, takes the interface design similar to Windows Explorer. Users who are familiar with FlashFXP and CuteFTP will probably like it.

For common computer users, we have been used to taking advantage of so many free or commercial network drives to store or transfer various files. To this end, we have to access them through a web browser or their corresponding clients. For independent bloggers or webmasters who mostly use a virtual hosting, FTP client is their must-have file manager. But the truth is, using any specialized clients to manage the files on remote or online drives is still not as convenient as in our local drives.