On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:47:50 +1100 George at Clug <c...@goproject.info> wrote:
> Joe, > > Thanks for your reply which provides me with more information. > > What do you know about Nemo? I noticed it is installed. When running > Nemo, it seems quite similar to Thunar. I've heard of it, I've never used it, and it isn't installed here. My usual workstation is unstable, installed as bookworm. There are Cinnamon users here, so presumably they know about it. > > I installed Nautilus. When I go to "Other Locations" in Nautilus, I > do not see any listed Windows/Samba shares. When I attempt to access > "Windows Network", I get the message "Failed to retrieve share list > from server..." message so I am guessing there is still something > missing in my Debian XFCE installation that would allow Nautilus to > discover Windows/Samba shares. Don't know. Nautilus here (called 'Files' now for anyone confused) can see shares on my Raspberry Pi running the RasPi version of bookworm, but not the shares on an older NAS. > > Thank you for your comment on mapping shares via fstab as I had > wondered if mounting shares with noauto would be possible. My fstab lines are like this: //piserve2/Documents /mnt/piserve2/Documents cifs noauto,x-systemd.automount,user,guest,noperm,uid=65534,gid=65534,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,rw I notice that the server that Nautilus can't see has the extra parameter vers=1.0, so it has an older operating system that can't use the current SMB version. Presumably Nautilus can't, either. > > Our main file share is SAMBA, which has worked well over the past > years with Windows 7 and Windows 10, and also Debian Linux. > > For XFCE, I always install gvfs-backends and gvfs-fuse, then in > Thunar I use "smb://[ip address of Share]/[sharename] and bookmark > this connection. This process works well for me, but it would be nice > if Thunar was able do discover shares as I believe Thunar could > discover shares if whatever required supporting packages were > installed. Since Nemo is also not able to discover shares in my XFCE > computer, I assume other supporting packages need to be installed for > this feature to work. But what would they be? > > I have a test Fedora Gnome and a LDME Cinnamon computers and while > both behave differently, both find our file shares. I was not able to > see any difference in file share related packages between the LDME > computer and my Debian XFCE, though I expect I am missing something > as even Nautilus on my XFCE is not able to discover the file shares. > Of course Nautilus, Nemo, and Thunar work if I explicitly connect to > these shares. Browsing is a bit of a black art even among Windows versions, as they squabble over who gets to be the Master Browser and who must download their browse lists from it. It was basically developed from the primitive DOS networking before Windows 95 and carries baggage... -- Joe
