Network Drive Support for Linux

[zambony]

If it isn't already planned, support for using a Windows network drive while on Linux would be helpful. On Windows, I can map a network drive easily, then add that drive as a Location, but on Linux (due to either user error or network security policies) I cannot mount some SMB shares as full folders. I can access them in Dolphin with smb://ip/folder, but I cannot identify a way to use that in Spacedrive.

[iLynxcat]

We should look into what could be holding us back from doing this, if it's easy we should implement @matheus-consoli

Ideally @zambony you should be able to run Spacedrive on the server these files exist on, add the native FS volume/folder as a Location, and track that via Sync (shipping as an 0.5 feature)

[zambony]

Thanks for the reply @iLynxcat. I would run Spacedrive there but the shares are not operated by me, so I don't have control over them, only access to their contents.

[iLynxcat]

Got it. Good idea for support then. I can imagine educational users with a personal folder on a network drive in this use case. Worth exploring but I don't think this'll be an incredibly high priority item for implementation at the moment; will convert this to an issue so we can track it internally

[zambony]

That's fine, glad it got some visibility. Thank you!