Unsolved How to open file-manager on a remote PC
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I'm writing an administration tool whose purpose would be to facilitate clients in accessing their systems remotely from a single node. I've wrote a client-server model app for this. I want to embed file-manager / file-explorer facility in it but the problem I'm facing is that I don't know how this can be achieved.
I've seen API on QT such as QFileSystemModel but that would show the filesystem locally. What can be done if I had to access the file-manager remotely ?
I've wrote my app in C++/QML.
Need suggestions.
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@pingal
QFileSystemModel
really is tied to local file system (unless the remote system can be truly "mounted", which I doubt is your case). You could look at its documentation/behaviour as an outline of what you might like a class of your own to implement using a set of your client/server calls. -
I think I've two options here.
- I write file-manager functions on client side which would be remotely invoked and the output would be transmitted back to my server to be shown in QML (?)
Or
- Instead of writing every function, I could utilize clients CMD (as it has already builtin functions e.g. cd, dir, copy, move) and throws STDOUT back to my server to be shown in QML window/frame (?)