diff --git a/src/common/libremoteio.h b/src/common/libremoteio.h
--- a/src/common/libremoteio.h
+++ b/src/common/libremoteio.h
@@ -30,9 +30,12 @@
 enum remoteio_method
   {
     REMOTEIO_METHOD_SSH = 0,
+#ifndef WINDOWS
+    REMOTEIO_METHOD_UNIX = 1,
+#endif
     /*    REMOTEIO_METHOD_TCP */ /*< someday, maybe */
     /*    REMOETIO_METHOD_XMLRPC */ /*< again, maybe someday */
-    REMOTEIO_METHOD_MAX = 1 /*< This is a number used to check the consitency of remoteio_server structs */
+    REMOTEIO_METHOD_MAX = 2 /*< This is a number used to check the consitency of remoteio_server structs */
   };
 
 struct remoteio_server
@@ -66,6 +69,8 @@ typedef int remoteio_close_func_t(struct
 
 struct remoteio_method_funcmap
 {
+  enum remoteio_method method;
+
   remoteio_open_func_t *open_func;
   remoteio_read_func_t *read_func;
   remoteio_write_func_t *write_func;