Re: Nautilus remote previews

["Carey O'Shea" <carey internode on net>]

Thanks for your reply.

My problem is that the "Local Files Only" option does not work with
remotely mounted SMB directories. 

Is this problem known?

Regards,
Carey.

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 23:58 +0200, Patrick Jacquot wrote:
> Le mardi 20 juin 2006 �2:47 +1000, Carey O'Shea a �it :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have remote drives mounted via NFS/SMB/etc on my laptops, and due to
> > these remote directories being mounted, nautilus thinks they are local,
> > and tries to generate previews for everything (very much not fun over a
> > 256kbit or 512kbit uplink). 
> > 
> > Anyone know if there is a gconf setting or some way to get nautilus to
> > be smarter about this and detect remote directories automatically (ie.
> > partition not local, so therefore remote, then don't show preview)? 
> > 
> > Or at the least, a way to manually disable previews on a per-directory
> > basis?
> > 
> > Any ideas are appreciated.
> > 
> > 
> In the Nautilus preferences, tab "previews", you can ask the previews
> for "only local files"; separately for sound files and for
> "other previews" i.e. images. There are three choices for each category:
> _ never
> - always
> - for local files only
> HTH