open-remote - mounts and opens block devices, ISO files, remote devices in the local network, FTP, SSH and WebDAV sources (provided by Starbuntu)

open-remote

The Starbuntu program open-remote mounts and opens block devices, ISO image files, remote devices in the local network (FTP or SSHFS) and FTP, SFTP, SSH and WebDAV addresses on the Internet whose program entries can be easily created, modified or deleted vy means of the offered Edit function.

The raw data of these entries are located in the text file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/orrc. The format is for

• Block devices:
  name=Block Devices
  
  
• ISO image file:
  name=ISO File‖dest=iso://<label of the storage medium or the folder path of the ISO>
  
  
• Remote device in the local network via FTP:
  name=<label of the device>‖dest=ftp://<local IP address or device label>:<port>[path]‖user=<user>‖passwd=<password>
  
  
• Remote device in the local network via SSHFS:
  name=<label of the device>‖dest=sshfs://<local IP address or device label>[path]‖user=<user>‖passwd=<password>
  
  
• FTP page:
  name=<title of the FTP page>‖dest=ftp://<FTP address>:<port>[path]‖user=<user>‖passwd=<password>
  
  
• Secure FTP page:
  name=<title of the SFTP page>‖dest=sftp://<SFTP address>[path]‖user=<user>‖passwd=<password>
  
  
• Secure SSH page:
  name=<title of the SSH page>‖dest=ssh://<SFTP address>[path]‖user=<user>‖passwd=<password>
  
  
• WebDAV folder:
  name=<title of the WebDAV folder>‖dest=https://<WebDAV address>[path]‖user=<user>‖passwd=<password>

The assignment of 'name' is not binding.

Please notice carefully the used delimiter '‖' (='DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE', not to be confused with two 'pipes', i.e. '||').

After the first call of a password protected address the regarding password contained in the raw data file gets encoded.

Before a remote device in the local network invoked by its local IP address gets opened, a dialogue with this IP address pops up so that you can still manually correct it.

In case of success the remote source gets mounted automatically and the file manager Rox gets opened twice, for the remote source and for the home folder, in one window. As soon as this window gets closed again, the remote source gets unmounted automatically.

/usr/local/bin/open-remote
$HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/orrc

Peter Starfinger <info@die-starfingers.de>