remote integration

Forum thread started by togs_01 on Wed, 2005-12-21 09:34

I don't know if this was part of BeOS in the past, but I would really like to see the abililty to explore remote sites - ftp, ssh, maybe even cvs and subversion - built in. I suppose the best place would be the Tracker?

For example, if you type sftp://domain.tld in a MacOS Finder window, you'll be able to authenticate and browse the remote server as if it was stored locally.

Cheers,
togs

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Re: remote integration

by myob - 2005-12-21 18:19

togs_01 wrote:

I don't know if this was part of BeOS in the past, but I would really like to see the abililty to explore remote sites - ftp, ssh, maybe even cvs and subversion - built in. I suppose the best place would be the Tracker?

For example, if you type sftp://domain.tld in a MacOS Finder window, you'll be able to authenticate and browse the remote server as if it was stored locally.

Cheers,
togs

Best place is at filesystem level, and already exists for a number of protocols:

1. SAMBA - built into the OS in BeOS R5. Unreliable as hell, but it does work for a while. cifsmount at the terminal, or the buggy World O'Networking demo app that acts like the Windows Networking browser.
2. FTP - http://bebits.com/app/3511 FTP-FS. Mounts an FTP drive as a hard drive, read/write allowed
3. NFS - rather old and probably not working very well anymore, but http://bebits.com/app/1021 allows you to mount an NFS drive as a hard drive

All of these allow -all- apps to treat them like a HDD mount rather than anything else. Its the ideal abstraction layer.

don't forget DAV

by M - 2005-12-22 01:43

A dav fs add-on would rock, as would SVN as it could handle BFS attributes...

Re: don't forget DAV

by tqh - 2005-12-22 09:29

M wrote:

A dav fs add-on would rock, as would SVN as it could handle BFS attributes...

Yes WebDAV would be a great addition as it supports queries. Both server and client.

http://www.webdav.org