Re: browsing over ssh

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Michael,

Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 08/11/13 Riccardo Mottola said:
>
> > 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.
> Yeah, I get the argument for hating the gnome vfs. Some mechanism to
> dynamically kick off the mount would help. Maybe I'll come up with something.
well, technically, GWorkspace can call "mount" for selected mount 
points. So you can mount USB keys or hard disks.

If you can mount something with "mount" and have the rights as user to 
do so, GWorkspace can mount it, barren bugs.
> > On HURD it would all just work fine with a translator ;)
> Does HURD like, exist?
Well, it is better than you think. But it is not really usable like BSD 
or Linux, but it improved a lot.

Riccardo