On Tue 31 Dec 2024 at 16:20:21 (-0500), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Monday 30 December 2024 03:34:20 pm George at Clug wrote: > > With the popularity of XFCE, I would have expected that "network > > browsing in the thunar file manager" would be fully supported by > > default by now.
I understood that paragraph to be complaining about the lack of backends and fuse for browsing, but I suppose it could include the missing shares-plugin as well. > No windows here at all, so I have no use for "windows shares" nor do I see > any need for Samba and "samba shares" (is there a differene?). I do have > network shares, originating on my file server, and specified in /etc/fstab. > Works with thunar or any other file manager... However, I don't think that's the OP's issue, because if you've involved /etc/fstab then you must have root access. The plugin is meant to allow users to share their folders _without_ needing root access. Cheers, David.
