SPAM-HIGH.Re: [Gllug] Linux on Desktop

[Russell Howe]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:57:30PM +0000, Christopher Mocock wrote:
> Another good thing about linux, or gnome in particular, is that nautilus
> stores the details of lots of servers including passwords, keys etc..
> (well gnome-keyring stores this but nautilus and gnome-keyring play
> happily together) so you can browse servers' directory listings using
> the gui which is actually using ssh and scp transparently. Saves having
> to type in passwords or long scp commands, and makes it easier to
> manager large numbers of servers. The protocol transparency is great
> because you can have servers connecting over DAV, FTP, SSH, and move
> files around between them without needing to be aware of the different
> protocols which are being used behind the scenes.

Interesting, whenever I try to use this feature of Nautilus, I
invariably make it segfault :)

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Russell Howe       | Why be just another cog in the machine,
rhowe at siksai.co.uk | when you can be the spanner in the works?
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