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filter_ua

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Registered: 2006-01-22

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[SOLVED] Pcmanfm and remote folders browsing

Hi All,

Does anybody know if pcmanfm supports browsing remote folders via ftp and scp?
If so, how to do it?

Thanks a lot.

Last edited by filter_ua (2008-09-18 08:47:25)

Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: [SOLVED] Pcmanfm and remote folders browsing

Hi All,

Does anybody know if pcmanfm supports browsing remote folders via ftp and scp?
If so, how to do it?

Thanks a lot.

Pcman doesn't do that. Others probably do, like Konqueror/Dolphin and smb4k.

I am not using them, however. Siunce the hasty move to kde4 I am avoiding any kde stuff.

I simply mount remote folders. There you have several options: samba, nfs, fuse.

There are some more esoteric ones, like curlftpfs.

Being mounted, for pcmanfm they are local folders.

Mektub

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carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

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Re: [SOLVED] Pcmanfm and remote folders browsing

for ssh I use sshfs. In fact I don't even use samba anymore for my home network

Gruntz

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From: Haskovo, Bulgaria

Registered: 2007-08-31

Posts: 291

Re: [SOLVED] Pcmanfm and remote folders browsing

The latest version of PCmanFM is supporting smb, ftp and other network stuff, in some kind of alpha version. The version is 0.4.4.2. I do not remember exactly from where I got that version, but you can try the latest download from here.

Regards.

Vintendo

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2008-04-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Pcmanfm and remote folders browsing

Hi All,

Does anybody know if pcmanfm supports browsing remote folders via ftp and scp?
If so, how to do it?

Thanks a lot.

Pcman doesn't do that. Others probably do, like Konqueror/Dolphin and smb4k.

I am not using them, however. Siunce the hasty move to kde4 I am avoiding any kde stuff.

I simply mount remote folders. There you have several options: samba, nfs, fuse.

There are some more esoteric ones, like curlftpfs.

Being mounted, for pcmanfm they are local folders.

Mektub

Can you mount ftp-folders with samba how?

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Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: [SOLVED] Pcmanfm and remote folders browsing

Can you mount ftp-folders with samba how?

Not with samba. For that I use curlftpfs. Take a look at:

http://tinyurl.com/2qktc8

Mektub

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Pcmanfm and remote folders browsing

To add to what Mektub said, curlftpfs works with pcmanfm and is blazing fast.

filter_ua

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Registered: 2006-01-22

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] Pcmanfm and remote folders browsing

Thanks for replies.

I found some discussions on the internet and even saw the screenshot but not hints how to make it work .

To add to what Mektub said, curlftpfs works with pcmanfm and is blazing fast.

But do you mount FTP/SSh folders manually or pcmanfm does it for you? I cannot find any Connection Setting Dialogs in pcmanfm

Thanks

filter_ua

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Registered: 2006-01-22

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] Pcmanfm and remote folders browsing

Ok. The truth was found.

It seems that remote file system support is experimental and only in 0.4.4.2 .
I installed pcmanfm from aur
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19944

Hope these features will be available in newer versions of pcmanfm.

Cheers

Vasyl

Last edited by filter_ua (2008-09-18 08:46:58)