While I'd love to use konq for this kind of thing, I've always found it lacking unless all you want to do is browse to a file and copy it to your local drive. IME, sftp:// will allow you to edit a remote file "remotely," but has to copy it locally and then move it back when done (this may be ubiquitous, I don't know, but it's very noticeable with sftp://)- it also constantly bugs you for a password. smb:// is worse in many respects since you simply cannot open files "remotely" at all in many cases - OO.o "opens" but then crashes silently. This is why in any of these situations I much prefer and recommend mounting the filesystem locally - this is how I use sshfs, and I'm surprised there aren't some nice-n-easy sshfs mount tools which are more in the public eye.dann wrote:I do this with konqueror too, all the time. You just connect to a server using sftp and browse it like a local machine.Snarkout wrote:You know of any good nethood-style file browsers for sshfs? I agree that sshfs is fantastic and use it myself, but the OP made it fairly clear that he's looking for windows style p2p sharing. Also, do you know of any good sshfs printer sharing options?
With samba I have use lineighborhood in the past and have been very please. Although, it's hard not to use the native tools with konqueror or nautilus these days.
My point with that post is that we, as a community, need to stop telling people that they solution they want/need is the wrong one and then suggest in condescending ways that they really need a totally non-1-for-1 tradeoff. Telling people that they're solving the wrong problem is one thing, but telling them that they are misguided for even asking for a standard, well tested, and generally trusted standard is foolish, especially when the solution you propose doesn't fill the requirements. Offer it as an alternative, sure, but browbeating someone with clear-cut requirements for wanting the "wrong thing" is asshattery. SSHFS is fantastic for some applications, and like I've mentioned I use it all the time, but it is in no way a peer-to-peer network filesystem.
