Thunar ftp/smb plugin

[Auke Kok]

Oblio wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Is ftp/smb support planned in thunar?
>> It will be great if yes.
>> Alex
> 
> And twin panel view + commander shortcuts, too.
> Not gonna happen soon :)

This is starting to annoy me. The next person to ask about this will have to 
clean out espresso's spamtrap for two hours.

To retaliate, I have added a FAQ entry describing the problem on the wiki. 
Please refer everyone to this:

http://thunar.xfce.org/pwiki/documentation/faq


summary:

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When will it support samba/network browsing?

It already does! Just mount your shares and go to them with Thunar! Just kidding.

You are obviously asking about Thunar being able to discover remote machines on 
a network and mount/unmount shares from them. What you are asking for is nice, 
but there is no common framework for it yet that Thunar can build on.

Thunar is designed to be a file manager, not a network file system manager. 
Once such a beast exists, Thunar and all other applications will be able to use 
it, and you can browse your samba or NFS shares in firefox or emacs, whatever.

Short answer: not any time soon unless you write it yourself.
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oh, and this:


THUNAR IS ALREADY GREAT WITHOUT THIS FEATURE DAMMIT!!!

;)

Cheers,

Auke