Endorsement of a wonderful tool: SSHFS

[Jan Claeys]

Op zondag 24-05-2009 om 19:20 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Brian
Fahrlander:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Op dinsdag 19-05-2009 om 11:23 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Brian
> > Fahrlander:
> >   
> >>     GNOME has the "connect to server" thing, too; but this makes the 
> >> filesystem completely transparent so you can point things like 
> >> Rythmnbox/Xine/Totem at the files and everything works without a
> >> hitch.  
> >> Under the built-in methods most everything but Nautilus complains "not
> >> a real file system" or somesuch.
> >>     
> >
> > If you install gvfs-fuse, you can use every gvfs "mount" with every
> > program (the mount points are in ~/.gvfs/ )
> >   
>     Hmm. I already have a .gvfs filesystem; that's the one Rhytmnbox 
> won't touch. I'm not sure what you mean...are there more parts to the 
> device we're talking about?  I'm just using it out-of-the-box, as it were...

I don't understand exactly what you mean, but AFAIK Rhythmbox uses gvfs
and not the fuse-mount by default...

The fuse-mount is useful when non-Gtk apps need to access a filesystem
that was gvfs-mounted through (for example) nautilus.


-- 
Jan Claeys