Remote Locations
Polo can connect to FTP, SFTP, SSH and Samba servers.
To connect to a remote server, select the Connect to Server… action from the main menu bar:
This opens a dialog where you can enter the server details:
You can also type the remote location URI directly in the pathbar (like ftp://server:port, or smb://server/share). If the server is already connected, the contents of the remote folder will be displayed. Otherwise, the Connect to Server… dialog will open up to help you establish a connection.
There’s a tiny icon beside the Server Type drop-down. Clicking this icon displays a list of previous servers that you connected to. Select an item from the list to fill-in the saved details.
Connected servers show up in the Places section of the Sidebar or the Bookmarks popup. Right-click on the item and select Disconnect to disconnect from the server.
gvfs-mount is used for connecting to remote servers. It mounts remote locations under the folder $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/gvfs. On most systems this maps to /run/user/$USER/gvfs where $USER is the UID of the current user (usually 1000 for the first user created on the system).