No nfs:// support

[Andrew Jorgensen]

Once, some time ago, gnome-vfs had support for nfs:// URLs. At some point there wasn't anyone maintaining it and it got broken so it just configured out. I tried out KDE for a few days and found that it had nfs:// support in it's kio stuff and it worked famously. It would be nice to see nfs:// support in gnome-vfs again.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've forwarded your request upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328107

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

The upstream bug has patches attached, I asked for a review.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Upstream won't be fixing GnomeVFS (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328107#c16).

The bug can be left valid by changing it, properly, to refer to gvfs or perhaps just Nautilus. That is the logical request: support for NFS in Gnome, without care for the underlying library (gnomevfs vs gvfs).

What we want is for Avahi published NFS mounts, e.g.,

<service-group>
  <name replace-wildcards="yes">Home Directories</name>
  <service>
    <type>_nfs._tcp</type>
    <port>2049</port>
    <txt-record>path=/home</txt-record>
  </service>
</service-group>

which results in a client system being able to see:

= eth0 IPv4 Home Directories Network File System local
   hostname = [amitower.local]
   address = [192.168.1.6]
   port = [2049]
   txt = ["path=/home"]

Yes, I have left out /etc/exports, as it isn't germaine to zeroconf -- the point of Bug #65048, which has been marked as a duplicate of this bug, The point is that we want Gnome to show us those (removable) media when they are available, and allow them to be mounted.

[EricDHH (ericdhh)]

Will ubuntu turn to second windows? We need nfs support in nautilus, tried autofs but this cause only lockups with nautilus.

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

Possible solution (from idea #475): http://nfs-lan.sevka.info

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

I just noticed that it is in launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nfs-lan

[Jamin W. Collins (jcollins)]

Per the referenced site, nfs-lan does not appear to have support for Nautilus 3.x

[sevka (sevka)]

I released alpha version of nfs-lan for Nautilus 3.x. I tested it on Ubuntu 12.04.

nfs-lan author

[Odin Hørthe Omdal (velmont)]

GVFS supports NFS again now.

Announcement: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gvfs-list/2015-March/msg00000.html
https://rossl.org/blog/computer/gvfs-nfs.html