WAN access from 2 pane File manager

[Avraham Hanadari]

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 08:51 -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Avraham Hanadari <rufus at hanadari.net> wrote:
> > I wish to sync/backup the contents of folders between Ubuntu 8.1 and a
> > WinXP desktop machine. I have been doing this between a Vista laptop and
> > the XP machine using GoodSync. Some of the syncing already goes through
> > the GoogleDocs cloud, but I'd like a more direct link if possible. I've
> > tried pcman, Gnome Commander, bsc, and XNC and none recognized the
> > Windows Network already in place, although I have no difficulty
> > accessing it outside of the named applications.
> 
> Are you manually mounting the Windows network? or just browsing thru Nautilus?
> 
> If you are using Nautilus then I think you will find your mount by
> navigating to ~/.gvfs
> In other words, mount the Windows network share using Nautilus as you
> would normally, then
> in pcman or Gnome Commander or whatever go to ~/.gvfs
> 
> You may want to look at Unison for this task as well,  I haven't used
> it, but it often comes up as a solution.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Brian
> 
Thanks, Brian.
I went to .gvfs via XNC, but it was empty. I did not encounter any
request or possibility of mounting the network (called Windows shares).
It just works. There is a pause, so maybe it is being mounted
automatically when I click on the first icon. I then tried to locate it
through Nautilus. It showed up (viewing hidden files), but when I tried
the same thing with sudo, it didn't appear at all. I checked through all
of the file system, via XNC and the Search Tool. Most curious.
I'll check out Unison.
Thanks again.
Avraham