[Thunar-dev] Network access in thunar?

[Benedikt Meurer]

Stavros Giannouris wrote:
>>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.

Exactly. And that's also the reason why I'm not sure that smb support
should be provided by the file manager.

Benedikt