[ubuntu-uk] Exploiting A Nautilus Server Connection

[Juan J. Martínez]

On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 12:47 +0000, Nigel Verity wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> A bit of programming advice, please.
> 
> 
> I routinely use Nautilus to copy files between machines and to
> manipulate remote file structures. Once I've connected to a remote
> server in Nautilus, can I then exploit that connection in a program to
> open files on that server, such as in an fopen() call?
> 
Gnome used to implement some remote access thought fuse, and the remote
disk is mounted on ~/.gvfs/SOMETHING.

I believe you can access to the remote file system using that path and
FUSE should provide de required magic to your fopen works as if it were
a local file.

I used sshfs [1] with FUSE [2] directly (without Nautilus), and it works
amazingly well.

Regards,

Juan

1: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html
2: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/