Comment 23 for bug 297372

So I've run into this a bit before.

Namely, Winamp has the same issue. You can give it a play list which includes files on a remote machine "\\host\music\xxx".

However, if you do that and have not opened the location in Explorer, Winamp will just try endlessly to open each file and fail (it tends to just hang quite painfully at that point).

It is fairly trivial to reproduce, just try to access a non-local file path like "bzr st //host/path/on/host". The idea is that we *could* auto-mount the remote host, and prompt the user for a password if necessary.

That would probably be something that we need to do inside bzr, probably as part of the LocalTransport object.

I'm not 100% sure if we want to do that, but if we are going to support "bzr status //host/mount/path" then I suppose we should.