This is great and... On a small scale, you don't even need samba or nfs. Many file browsers can mount remote directories via sftp, and can browse the files as

This is great and... On a small scale, you don't even need samba or nfs. Many file browsers can mount remote directories via sftp, and can browse the files as if it was a local directory. Also: KDE and some GTK-based graphical environments have subsystems for this: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIO - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIO_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIO_(software)