thunar support for sftp and samba

[Alexander Toresson]

On Nov 7, 2007 7:02 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Nigi Fabio wrote:
> > ok but it's not the top way ;-)
>
> It's a great way.
>
> > i speak about the protocol support:
> > like in nautilus where i write in the address bar
> >
> > sftp:// or samba:// if i mount it also midnight commander support
> > every network file system ;-)
>
> Thunar isn't a network browser; it's a file browser.  Writing a generic
> network-transparent file system layer isn't easy.  Come up with a clean
> way of doing it, and it just might be integrated.
>
>         -brian
>
> P.S. Please don't top-post.
>

I got an idea that could be workable, but it requires quite some
cooperation with fuse (and features added to fuse). A way it could be
implemented could be that fuse modules simply registered url
'handlers' for a partial url, that is, 'handlers' that are
directories. So then for example urls beginning with samba:// could be
sent to fuse in some way, that would then preprocess it in some way,
and send it back.
With fusesmb having mounted a directory it could have registered that
the mount point would be the 'handling' directory for urls beginning
with samba://, so fuse would for example return
/mnt/fuse/path/that/was/requested. Just an idea that turned up in my
head right now, not well thought through or so, but what do you think?

Regards, Alexander Toresson