Thunar shortcut - how to include path on remote macine
by taylorkh from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4RQSM)
I am playing with xfce on a CentOS 8 installation (in place of the latest perversion of Gnome3.) I am wanting to connect from the CentOS virtual machine back to the host with Thunar. Searching brought me to a post I had made several years ago about the same subject - I hate when that happens :redface: That refreshed my memory and I connected in the Thunar address bar thus:
sftp://ken@10.42.0.20.22/data/
/data/ being the directory on the host which I wished to access. This worked just fine. I was prompted to accept the ssh key as I had never accessed the host computer from this VM before and then I was asked for my password on the host. I connected and Thunar displayed /data/ on the host.
The issue arose when I right clicked on the connection listed under NETWORK on the right panel and selected "Create Shortcut." Thunar did in fact create a shortcut and I can use it to connect to the host computer. However, I find that it connects to / on the host and not /data/.
Does anyone know a trick to create a shortcut to a particular directory on the target machine? I guess I am spoiled by Mate/Caja which allows me to do this.
TIA,
Ken
sftp://ken@10.42.0.20.22/data/
/data/ being the directory on the host which I wished to access. This worked just fine. I was prompted to accept the ssh key as I had never accessed the host computer from this VM before and then I was asked for my password on the host. I connected and Thunar displayed /data/ on the host.
The issue arose when I right clicked on the connection listed under NETWORK on the right panel and selected "Create Shortcut." Thunar did in fact create a shortcut and I can use it to connect to the host computer. However, I find that it connects to / on the host and not /data/.
Does anyone know a trick to create a shortcut to a particular directory on the target machine? I guess I am spoiled by Mate/Caja which allows me to do this.
TIA,
Ken