Re: browsing over ssh

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

David Chisnall wrote:
> On 7 Nov 2013, at 18:33, "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone managed to get GWorkspace browsing remote files? I've found
> > Nautilus' ability to browse over SSH very handy in the past, and I'd prefer to
> > not do it via static mounts or FUSE...
> I'd much prefer this kind of thing to work via FUSE.  I've found the Nautilus 
> behaviour spectacularly irritating, where you find a file, double click on it, 
> and then discover that the app that's registered to open those files doesn't 
> use GNOME VFS (it being under the impression that the VFS is the job of the 
> kernel, not the file manager) and so returns an error for an invalid path.
>
> The correct way of implementing these is to have a privileged help daemon that 
> will mount things on demand, in directories owned by the user who provided the 
> credentials.
I totally stand to that. It is nto a job of the file-manager. You need 
ssh, other asked me to put FTP logic, others will need samba and so on. 
Then you have to handle all that "tmp" file stuff if the destination 
files are not readable or not openable with fopen(), etc etc.

When I see how it works on mac or windows, I just don't like it. I never 
tried nautilus in that regard, to be honest.
On the other hard, I don't liek FUSE either, especially outside linux, 
so I understand your dislike too.

On HURD it would all just work fine with a translator ;)

Riccardo