Good to hear that it is working for you - that is different experience then I had when setting this up for others maybe year/two-is ago.
I will have to try and see how that actually works. Thanks for the feedback, Tomas On Sat, 2021-01-09 at 14:49 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 15:49:01 -0500 > Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> dijo: > > > Before you finish you victory lap here - try to open some larg-ish > > file in the file manager. > > > > You will notice: > > a) the file is first downloaded to some temporary file then opened > > as > > local. If you edit and save the edits - it will be in the tmp file, > > not the original > > b) the file will not open at all because the path to it, in the > > file > > browser, does not represent the file path outside the file manager. > > > > There is no good way around mounting remote file systems through > > some > > gui magic at this point in time. > > OK, I just tried it with a 2.1GB .mkv file. I dragged it from the > file > manager and dropped it on VLC. > > (I do it this way because of a bug that I think is in Xfce or the > window manager - if I close VLC by clicking on the X in the upper > right > corner of the window, many times some piece of VLC doesn't close > down, > so next time I try to launch VLC it can't run.) > > Anyway, VLC instantly started playing the 2.1GB file, no problems. > The > file in question is located on my external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure > populated with NVMe drives, connected to my laptop, and mounted at > /media/jjj/. The file manager and VLC are on my desktop, and the file > manager says the folder that it is displaying is: > > sftp://192.168.1.163/media/jjj/Movies/<name of the movie> > > The file manager is Thunar, which is what Gigolo opened when I double > clicked on the folder icon that was labeled 192.168.1.163, the icon > that Gigolo created after I logged in to the laptop. I also navigated > around in Thunar to explore other folders on the laptop, and it was > just as fast and trouble-free as when I do it with a file manager > directly on the laptop. > > I didn't try modifying the file to see what might happen. Normally > all > I want to do is access the files to see them, not modify them. There > is, of course, another copy of the same file on the Synology, and > until > now I have had to use that copy on the desktop. But the Synology is > super slow on initial access; I have to sit and wait as I listen to > the > drives grinding and clicking. Hopefully now the Synology will only be > used for 3am backups, where its glacial speed won't annoy me. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
