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 _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
