[Thunar-dev] Network access in thunar?

[Stavros Giannouris]

Στις Sat, 5 Aug 2006 17:31:33 +0200
Ο/Η "David Tenser" <djst.mozilla at gmail.com> έγραψε:

> In Windows, a "samba" share is like
> any other folder to the applications, because the support is
> implemented in the system-level. In other words, it doesn't matter to
> mplayer2.exe if I double-clicked on "C:\file.avi" or
> "\\share\file.avi". To the application, both paths point to a file.
> 
> This kind of transparent network support is what I'm really asking
> for, but maybe it's not suitable in this Thunar-specific mailing list.
> Gnome seems (?) to have started to implement this, but it looks like
> they implemented it in the application-level (e.g. totem has support
> for smb://.. URIs while rhytmbox doesn't).
> 
> I have all my media (music, movies, etc) stored on my server which I
> can access with samba or ssh. If I want to access these files, I need
> to use e.g. Totem instead of Xfce's media player since the latter has
> no support for network shares.
> 
If you have some samba shares that you need to have constant access to,
you can always create an fstab entry for them and mount them through
smbfs/cifs. Then all will be transparent.
The other solutions (like smb:// uris in gnome-vfs) are mere
workarounds to enable occasional & quick access for non-priviledged
users to those shares.

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