Quoted Originally posted by yerenkow E.g. I can with any program open network file, is this network SMB, or DAV, or whatever. What we see in Unixes: None of Operating System nor Desktop Environment do not responsible for file handling, except plain file systems. Have you looked at FUSE? It has some very cool features (including mounting resources using SMB, FTP or DAV, use of several different crypto file systems, targets like a subversion repository). Still waiting for a good OSS Amazon s3fs.....