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Add a sshfs network folder to the device notifier?

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piedro
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Hello!

On my NAS there are network folders which users can access via sshfs (not their homefolders - I can access these via Dolphins FISH protocol, Iadded a link to "Places").
For the time being I added user specific mounts to /etc/fstab and I have set them to "noauto" so each user can mount his/her folder. Works fine...

But now I would like to add these folders to the device notifier.

In a way that they can be mounted in the same fashion as a USB stick with the added benefit to appear in Dolphin's left pane as "Devices".
It is important that they are not always mounted and available... but only if a user has to access it and decides to click on "mount" within the notifier or in Dolphin.

At the moment (plasma 5.2) the options of th device notifier widget are quite limited, but I am sure there are files to edit...

Some help here would be nice,
thx, piedro
insomniux
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Interesting....
No answer to this question. But still a question which may be there for more KDE users

I've an sshfs entry in my fstab as well and would like to be able to mount the file system from the device-listing. However it is not shown at all. I have to open a terminal and mount the remote disk-share manually.

Is there a possibility to make dolphin show sshfs file systems, like it does with smb and fish fstab-entries?
Thx
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scummos
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One thing you can do (though not exactly what you want) is to use KDE's fish:// KIO slave. You can just go to fish://user@server:/ and that will behave pretty much like sshfs in dolphin (but it's not sshfs). Maybe that is sufficient for your use case. For this you can also add a bookmark which will always work.


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Hi Scummos,
Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure if that will work for me. Most important reason for wanting a 'real mountpoint', is that some important applications like LibreOffice, will not work with network file systems like fish and sftp. Mounted sshfs works, but sshfs does not trigger an entry in the devices list in dolphin.
Insomniux


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