Package: x2gothinclientmanagement Severity: wishlist
X2go thinclients currently mount usb-storage devices nicely. It would be nice if they could also handle MTP-devices (like newer Android-phones). The mechanics for connecting the x2goserver session to the actual device (sshfs) wouldn't need to be changed. It would be a case of adding mtpfs or something similar to the thinclient chroot and making sure it auto mounts.
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Hi Anders,
On Mo 10 Jun 2013 11:38:29 CEST Anders Bruun Olsen wrote:
Package: x2gothinclientmanagement Severity: wishlist
X2go thinclients currently mount usb-storage devices nicely. It would be nice if they could also handle MTP-devices (like newer Android-phones). The mechanics for connecting the x2goserver session to the actual device (sshfs) wouldn't need to be changed. It would be a case of adding mtpfs or something similar to the thinclient chroot and making sure it auto mounts.
This basically has to be solved in the x2gousbmount package of the
src:x2gothinclient X2Go component.
As I do not have such a device here for testing, I need help for that.
A test rig would look like this:
o Install a minimal Debian/Ubuntu system o install the x2gothinclient package from our nightly builds (+dependencies) (or build from source: x2gothinclient.git) o edit the files you find in [1] and add mtpfs to the test system till it works
Greets, Mike
[1] http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2gothinclient.git;a=tree;f=x2gousbmount
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Hi Mike,
I have setup a virtual machine running Ubuntu 12.04 to test out MTP and have found out that it is quite annoying to deal with. mtpfs does not work out-of-the-box. A Google-employee has made go-mtpfs, which supposedly works better, but I have yet to experiment with it. With normal mtpfs it seems that you need to setup udev rules for your specific device, meaning that it can't be used as a catch-all solution for MTP devices. I will try to experiment with go-mtpfs and see if it can work as a general solution without having to do specific udev rules for all devices.
As a side-note, on my Ubuntu 13.04 desktop, MTP is handled by an updated gvfs and is accessible in Nautilus, but does not get mounted as a part of the filesystem in a way that is available outside Nautilus. Which is why I haven't actually played with mtpfs before, despite having an MTP device :)
2013/6/10 Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>
reassign #228 x2gousbmount thanks
Hi Anders,
On Mo 10 Jun 2013 11:38:29 CEST Anders Bruun Olsen wrote:
Package: x2gothinclientmanagement
Severity: wishlist
X2go thinclients currently mount usb-storage devices nicely. It would be nice if they could also handle MTP-devices (like newer Android-phones). The mechanics for connecting the x2goserver session to the actual device (sshfs) wouldn't need to be changed. It would be a case of adding mtpfs or something similar to the thinclient chroot and making sure it auto mounts.
This basically has to be solved in the x2gousbmount package of the src:x2gothinclient X2Go component.
As I do not have such a device here for testing, I need help for that.
A test rig would look like this:
o Install a minimal Debian/Ubuntu system o install the x2gothinclient package from our nightly builds (+dependencies) (or build from source: x2gothinclient.git) o edit the files you find in [1] and add mtpfs to the test system till it works
Greets, Mike
[1] http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=**x2gothinclient.git;a=tree;f=** x2gousbmount<http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2gothinclient.git;a=tree;f=x2gousbmount>
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MTP is handled by an updated gvfs and is accessible in Nautilus, but does not get mounted as a part of the filesystem in a way that is available outside Nautilus Are you sure that it doesn't appear as part of VFS? Open MTP in Nautilus and then do `cat /proc/mounts' in terminal (if you haven't
Hi, Anders. tried it yet), look for entries that seems to belong to gvfs. I don't have any MTP devices but, for example, samba shares that are opened via gvfs appear in VFS via (AFAIR) FUSE.
2013/6/12, Anders Bruun Olsen <abo@dsl.dk>:
Hi Mike,
I have setup a virtual machine running Ubuntu 12.04 to test out MTP and have found out that it is quite annoying to deal with. mtpfs does not work out-of-the-box. A Google-employee has made go-mtpfs, which supposedly works better, but I have yet to experiment with it. With normal mtpfs it seems that you need to setup udev rules for your specific device, meaning that it can't be used as a catch-all solution for MTP devices. I will try to experiment with go-mtpfs and see if it can work as a general solution without having to do specific udev rules for all devices.
As a side-note, on my Ubuntu 13.04 desktop, MTP is handled by an updated gvfs and is accessible in Nautilus, but does not get mounted as a part of the filesystem in a way that is available outside Nautilus. Which is why I haven't actually played with mtpfs before, despite having an MTP device :)
2013/6/10 Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>
reassign #228 x2gousbmount thanks
Hi Anders,
On Mo 10 Jun 2013 11:38:29 CEST Anders Bruun Olsen wrote:
Package: x2gothinclientmanagement
Severity: wishlist
X2go thinclients currently mount usb-storage devices nicely. It would be nice if they could also handle MTP-devices (like newer Android-phones). The mechanics for connecting the x2goserver session to the actual device (sshfs) wouldn't need to be changed. It would be a case of adding mtpfs or something similar to the thinclient chroot and making sure it auto mounts.
This basically has to be solved in the x2gousbmount package of the src:x2gothinclient X2Go component.
As I do not have such a device here for testing, I need help for that.
A test rig would look like this:
o Install a minimal Debian/Ubuntu system o install the x2gothinclient package from our nightly builds (+dependencies) (or build from source: x2gothinclient.git) o edit the files you find in [1] and add mtpfs to the test system till it works
Greets, Mike
[1] http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=**x2gothinclient.git;a=tree;f=** x2gousbmount<http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2gothinclient.git;a=tree;f=x2gousbmount>
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Okay, fair enough. It seems that gvfs does indeed mount the MTP device under /run/user/USERNAME/gvfs (wasn't listed with just the mount command, but is in /proc/mounts). But I don't think getting gvfs to play nicely with the rest of the x2gothinclient setup is worth the trouble. It might also be problematic as there is no way for the user to tell gvfs to mount the MTP device. It needs to be automatic. I think go-mtpfs might be the solution, but I am unable to test it today, as I am away from my work machine, where I have the before mentioned VM setup.
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MTP is handled by an updated gvfs and is accessible in Nautilus, but does not get mounted as a part of the filesystem in a way that is available outside Nautilus Are you sure that it doesn't appear as part of VFS? Open MTP in Nautilus and then do `cat /proc/mounts' in terminal (if you haven't
Hi, Anders. tried it yet), look for entries that seems to belong to gvfs. I don't have any MTP devices but, for example, samba shares that are opened via gvfs appear in VFS via (AFAIR) FUSE.
2013/6/12, Anders Bruun Olsen <abo@dsl.dk>:
Hi Mike,
I have setup a virtual machine running Ubuntu 12.04 to test out MTP and have found out that it is quite annoying to deal with. mtpfs does not work out-of-the-box. A Google-employee has made go-mtpfs, which supposedly works better, but I have yet to experiment with it. With normal mtpfs it seems that you need to setup udev rules for your specific device, meaning that it can't be used as a catch-all solution for MTP devices. I will try to experiment with go-mtpfs and see if it can work as a general solution without having to do specific udev rules for all devices.
As a side-note, on my Ubuntu 13.04 desktop, MTP is handled by an updated gvfs and is accessible in Nautilus, but does not get mounted as a part of the filesystem in a way that is available outside Nautilus. Which is why I haven't actually played with mtpfs before, despite having an MTP device :)
2013/6/10 Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>
reassign #228 x2gousbmount thanks
Hi Anders,
On Mo 10 Jun 2013 11:38:29 CEST Anders Bruun Olsen wrote:
Package: x2gothinclientmanagement
Severity: wishlist
X2go thinclients currently mount usb-storage devices nicely. It would be nice if they could also handle MTP-devices (like newer Android-phones). The mechanics for connecting the x2goserver session to the actual device (sshfs) wouldn't need to be changed. It would be a case of adding mtpfs or something similar to the thinclient chroot and making sure it auto mounts.
This basically has to be solved in the x2gousbmount package of the src:x2gothinclient X2Go component.
As I do not have such a device here for testing, I need help for that.
A test rig would look like this:
o Install a minimal Debian/Ubuntu system o install the x2gothinclient package from our nightly builds (+dependencies) (or build from source: x2gothinclient.git) o edit the files you find in [1] and add mtpfs to the test system till it works
Greets, Mike
[1] http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=**x2gothinclient.git;a=tree;f=** x2gousbmount< http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2gothinclient.git;a=tree;f=x2gousbmount>
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Hi Anders,
On Mi 12 Jun 2013 11:57:56 CEST Anders Bruun Olsen wrote:
Okay, fair enough. It seems that gvfs does indeed mount the MTP device under /run/user/USERNAME/gvfs (wasn't listed with just the mount command, but is in /proc/mounts). But I don't think getting gvfs to play nicely with the rest of the x2gothinclient setup is worth the trouble. It might also be problematic as there is no way for the user to tell gvfs to mount the MTP device. It needs to be automatic. I think go-mtpfs might be the solution, but I am unable to test it today, as I am away from my work machine, where I have the before mentioned VM setup.
Thanks for further introspection into this. Get back to us, once you
have the chance of testing it further!!!
Greets, Mike
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