Mount KT ucloud biz on macOS — NetDrive

A design studio in Seoul keeps its shared asset library on KT ucloud biz, but half the team works on MacBooks and the web console turns every export into a manual download-edit-reupload loop. NetDrive removes that loop by presenting the same KT ucloud biz storage as a normal drive in Finder, so a Mac user can open, edit, and save files exactly like they would on local disk.

Mount KT ucloud biz as a native macOS drive

NetDrive lets Google Drive, OneDrive, S3, SFTP, WebDAV and more appear as native drives on Windows and macOS — no syncing, no full downloads.

• KT ucloud biz shows up in Finder like any local volume
• No manual upload/download step for everyday file access
• Runs alongside S3, Wasabi, Alibaba Cloud, and 20+ other providers

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Why Mac Users Need More Than the Web Console

KT ucloud biz’s console is fine for occasional uploads, but it doesn’t help when an app expects a real file path — Photoshop opening a PSD directly, a shell script iterating a folder, or a video editor scrubbing footage without staging a local copy first. NetDrive has supported KT ucloud biz since its earliest 3.x releases, and mounting it on macOS uses the same drive-manager flow as every other provider in the list.

Because the connection goes through NetDrive’s standard provider list rather than a separate plugin, there’s nothing KT ucloud biz-specific to install beyond the credentials themselves.

What You Need Before You Start

• Access Key ID and Secret Access Key — generate a dedicated key pair for this drive rather than reusing a shared one, and scope it to the container the drive needs.
• Container or bucket name — the exact name of the storage space you’re mounting.
• macOS 14 Sonoma or later — NetDrive 3.18 and newer require Sonoma; Mac users still on macOS 13 Ventura or earlier need NetDrive 3.17 instead. Download the current build from netdrive.net/download/mac.
• macFUSE — NetDrive’s macOS mount mechanism depends on macFUSE (a maintained fork of osxfuse). The installer prompts you to install it if it isn’t already present, and macOS will ask you to approve the kernel extension in System Settings on first run.

A 7-day free trial covers the full feature set, so you can confirm the connection works before committing to a license.

Adding KT ucloud biz as a Drive

1. Open NetDrive and click the + (Add Drive) button in the Drive Manager.
2. Scroll the provider list and select KT ucloud biz.
3. Enter your Access Key ID and Secret Access Key — NetDrive stores these encrypted on your local machine, not as plain text.
4. Enter the container or bucket name, or use the browse option if your credentials have list permissions.
5. Pick a mount point and, if prompted, approve the macFUSE system extension the first time you connect.
6. Click Save, then Mount. The drive appears in Finder within a few seconds.

Working With the Mounted Drive

Once mounted, KT ucloud biz storage behaves like any other volume from an application’s point of view — Preview opens an image directly from the bucket, and Pages or Keynote save changes back without a separate export step.

Uploads run through NetDrive’s background queue by default, so saving a file returns control to your app immediately while the transfer finishes in the background. For workloads that reopen the same files repeatedly during a session — a designer flipping between the same handful of layered files — NetDrive’s local cache, adjustable from 100 GB up to 1 TB, keeps recently accessed content on local disk and skips the round trip on the second read.

If a container should never be modified from a given Mac — an archive of finished assets, for example — choose Read-only drive as the mount type when adding it. macOS rejects any write attempt at the OS level before it ever reaches KT ucloud biz.

Keeping the Drive Connected

For a Mac that should have the drive available every time someone signs in — a shared studio workstation, for instance — open the drive’s settings and set Mount at to Login instead of the default manual mount. NetDrive re-establishes the connection using its encrypted local credential store, so nobody has to remember to open the app and reconnect by hand.

Wrap-up

Once connected, KT ucloud biz behaves like any other drive on macOS — no separate sync client running in the background, no browser tab left open to the console. If your team also touches other regional or object-storage providers, NetDrive mounts them side by side; see mounting Alibaba Cloud on macOS or mounting Tencent Cloud on macOS for the equivalent setup. For teams that split between Windows and Mac, the Windows KT ucloud biz guide covers the same connection flow on the other platform.

— Alex, NetDrive