Prerequirements:

Install gvfs-backends

Prerequirements: install openssh-server and openssh-client

Testing sftp connection on localhost:

sftp://user@localhost

Testing ftp connection:

ftp://ftp.suse.de/

Testing NFS connection via a local nfs server and local NFS share

• Install nfs-kernel-server and nfs-common
• Add the following line to /etc/exports: /path/to/my/thunar/test/folder *(rw,sync,root_squash,subtree_check)
• sudo systemctl restart nfs-kernel-server
• If it does not work, check sudo systemctl status nfs-kernel-server and sudo less /var/log/syslog | grep nfs

• You can as well try to mount via mount command
  • sudo mkdir /mnt/NFS_Test
  • sudo mount 127.0.0.1:/path/to/my/thunar/test/folder /mnt/NFS_Test

• Install samba and smbclient
• Check that samba is running systemctl status smbd
• Follow the manual of the thunar-shares-plugin.
• Share folders with thunar-shares-plugin .. however some folders are automatically available:

smb://localhost/

There are docker images available for testing a sftp server

docker run -d -p 2222:22 --name sftp_test emberstack/sftp

First attempt to connect via console to the default user “demo”:

sftp -P 2222 demo@localhost

If that works, you can try via thunar:

sftp://demo@localhost:2222

You can quit the docker container with:

docker rm -f sftp_test

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