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Sgt_Pfeffer

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Registered: 2023-11-23

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[SOLVED] XFCE and Thunar - Samba doesn't show

Hi. New here, installed Arch with archinstall with XFCE, followed this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/samba#Client to my best understanding. In thunar, I can access my Samba share when typing smb://my_samba_hostname/, but I don't have hostname-CIFS/SMB link when opening "Browse Network", I only have "Windows Network", which opens "smb:///" (with three slashes), which is empty. the "hostname-CIFS/SMB" or "hostname-SSH" links where available in Thunar in other distributions, but I don't see how to get same result in Arch.

Last edited by Sgt_Pfeffer (2023-11-24 10:16:56)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE and Thunar - Samba doesn't show

You need to install the optional gvfs-smb package, do you have that? Potentially also install and configure https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Avahi for local domain/hostname resolution.

Sgt_Pfeffer

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Registered: 2023-11-23

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE and Thunar - Samba doesn't show

You need to install the optional gvfs-smb package, do you have that? Potentially also install and configure https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Avahi for local domain/hostname resolution.

Thank you! gvfs-smb was already installed, as well as avahi, but avahi service wasn't started.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE and Thunar - Samba doesn't show

If this is [SOLVED] please mark it as such by editing the title in your first post.