[Thunar-dev] Network access in thunar?

[Benedikt Meurer]

Stephan Arts wrote:
>>>>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.
> 
> So a more suitable option would be 'network-mount' support?

Yes, some kind of special action "Mount Share" for shares that adds an
fstab entry for the share. But that's post RC1.

Benedikt