anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:

> Joe Pfeiffer writes:
>>anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
>>> Another thing that's close to the user that would be nice
>>> to have would be support for removable storage (nowadays mostly USB
>>> sticks).
>>
>>USB sticks are something else different enough from the gui that I
>>don't see why it should be integrated.
>
> X is a connection between the remote machine and a machine close to
> the user. It would be convenient if the remote machine could talk to
> a USB stick plugged into the machine close to the user. One way to do
> this would be by piggybacking the traffic to the USB stick onto the X
> traffic; an alternative would be to do it through ssh.

Tunneling more through ssh does sound interesting...