On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 12:47 +0000, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > > A bit of programming advice, please. > > > I routinely use Nautilus to copy files between machines and to > manipulate remote file structures. Once I've connected to a remote > server in Nautilus, can I then exploit that connection in a program to > open files on that server, such as in an fopen() call? > Gnome used to implement some remote access thought fuse, and the remote disk is mounted on ~/.gvfs/SOMETHING.
I believe you can access to the remote file system using that path and FUSE should provide de required magic to your fopen works as if it were a local file. I used sshfs [1] with FUSE [2] directly (without Nautilus), and it works amazingly well. Regards, Juan 1: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html 2: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
