The NetFox plugin (the connection manager, and the sftp://, scp:// and smb:// addresses) offers these connection types. Connections are stored in the manager and reopened from bookmarks, folder history and saved sessions through their URI.
| Type | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| FTP | connection manager | |
| SFTP | sftp://[user@]host[:port]/path |
key, agent or password |
| SCP | scp://[user@]host[:port]/path |
opens the SFTP backend (below) |
| SMB | smb://[domain;]user[:password]@host[:port]/share/path |
Windows and Samba shares |
| FISH+ | connection manager (type fish+, fish is a synonym) |
see FISH+.md |
scp:// and the connection type SCP are the SFTP backend under the name people expect from scp: an SSH server that speaks SCP today also speaks SFTP, and SFTP gives real file listing, random access and rename, which the SCP protocol has no wire format for. A host with only the old SCP subsystem and no SFTP is not supported.
Saving an edited file renames a staged temp file onto the original, so SFTP replaces an existing target when the caller asks for overwrite: atomically through posix-rename@openssh.com where the server offers it, otherwise by parking the old file under a backup name for the moment of the swap. A plain rename with no overwrite decision still refuses an existing target (f4#1716, docs/ISSUES/ISSUE_1716_SFTP_SAVE_OVERWRITE.md).
smb://[domain;]user[:password]@host[:port]/share/path: the port is 445 unless given, the DOMAIN;user form of smbclient is understood, and without a user the logon is anonymous. Without a share (smb://host/) the panel lists the shares of the server. On systems other than Windows the UNC forms \\host, \\host\share\dir (and //host/share when there is no such local path) typed on the command line or in the path box open the same way. The panel reads, writes, creates folders, renames and deletes, and copies to and from it use the ordinary file operations. Shares themselves are made and removed on the server, not from the panel, and one rename cannot cross two shares (copy and delete instead). It is a pure Go client (github.com/cloudsoda/go-smb2), so no mount and no external tool is involved. The SMB type is in the full build only; the lite build leaves it out.
Not done yet: a password store or keyring for SMB connections, and Kerberos.
On Windows, and in every full build elsewhere, Network (Commands menu, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+W, or the "Network" drive in Alt+F1) shows the network the way Far Manager's Network panel does. On Windows the system lists it: domains and workgroups, their servers and their shares. Elsewhere the servers are the SMB hosts this session has reached (by smb://host, \\host or the path below), and a server lists the shares it reports over SMB; a share opens as a directory through the same client as smb://. To reach a server that is not in the list yet, type its name as a path in the Network drive (/nas); a server that needs a login is opened by its smb://user:password@host address instead. The Network view also has an address, network:// (or network://server/share/folder), which works in the command line, a bookmark and the go-to dialog; on Windows a plain \\server\share path works as well.