[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1289: investigate whether Dokan SSHFS works with the SFTP frontend

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#1289: investigate whether Dokan SSHFS works with the SFTP frontend
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     Reporter:  davidsarah     |       Owner:  somebody               
         Type:  task           |      Status:  closed                 
     Priority:  major          |   Milestone:  undecided              
    Component:  documentation  |     Version:  1.8.1                  
   Resolution:  wontfix        |    Keywords:  sftp dokan windows docs
Launchpad Bug:                 |  
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Changes (by davidsarah):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => wontfix


Comment:

 I was not able to get Dokan SSHFS to work at all with Tahoe's SFTP,
 apparently due to the SharpSSH library it uses (which was
 [http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharpssh/ last updated in 2007]) having
 interoperability problems with many servers. See
 [http://code.google.com/p/dokan/issues/detail?id=21 Dokan ticket 21]. In
 [http://dokan-dev.net/en/2011/01/12/dokan-sshfs-0-6-0-released/ this blog
 post], the maintainer of Dokan says that:

 > I have two troubles on the development of Dokan SSHFS.
 >
 > The first is SSH authentication issue. Dokan SSHFS has issues around
 network connection because it depends on SharpSSH library and there are
 some issues in that library. And I can’t fix the issues.
 >
 > The second is Explorer extensions. I don’t have building environment of
 those extension libraries, so I can’t provide any updated installer.
 >
 > I wish I could provide a good SSHFS application in the future.

 I'm closing this ticket as wontfix; it can be reopened if the
 interoperability of Dokan SSHFS improves.

 I will open another ticket about using Dokan via pyfilesystem, which looks
 more promising.

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