bryan <paradox2004x at yahoo.com> wrote: > Yup I meant I want to I access a box/server that I FTP > to as a local mount.... but not only via konqueor. > > can this be configured. :)
brentoy at gmail.com wrote: > yes,it can be.u might wanna read up on configuring nfs (network file > system).i figure itll answer pretty much of ur needs. google for nfs > or visit tldp.org for documentation/howtos (nfs & others) :) Huh? NFS and FTP are two different things. I believe what Bryan is asking is if it is possible to mount an ftp:// url address onto the filesystem. The short answer is no, you can't. Do a 'man mount' and look at the supported file systems, nfs is supported but not ftp. You can't arbitrarily mount an ftp:// url onto your filesystem but Bryan can opt to run an NFS server (or Samba) on the host that he wants to access remotely to get the files there to mount and appear as 'local' directories, but using Samba or NFS has nothing to do with FTP. Still, this led me to an interesting idea: how feasible would it be to write a VFS plug-in that would enable ftp mounts? This could be pretty cool... Microsoft's CIFS (what they are evolving SMB towards) is about providng similar functionality (enabling filesystem mounts across the Internet). -- reply-to: a n d y @ n e o t i t a n s . c o m -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
