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courageux

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Registered: 2015-07-15

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Dolphin "file or folder not found" error connecting to Windows shares

Hi,

I am trying to access a Windows shared folder on my Arch linux system. I am using the default smb.conf (with a custom workgroup name).

In kde with dolphin I can usually see the different workgroups on the network. Most of the times it can list the computer names as well.  Note: I did try this but it made no difference.

However sometimes it will not list any folders in a directory, or list only some of them but not all and nearly always it will produce an error about the folder or directory not existing when I try to navigate to a folder that it displayed. The same error comes up when trying to access it directly with the smb:// url.

The shares can successfully be accessed from Windows on the same computer (dual boot) and OS X on another computer.

Also I tried an application that mounts the samba directory to a folder smb4k and when I use that I have no issues and it works perfectly, however I would like to be able to use smb:// directly in dolphin.

Any ideas?

I also tried an Ubuntu 15.04 livecd and it had the same issues with nautilus.

Thanks.

Malkymder

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Registered: 2015-05-13

Posts: 258

Re: Dolphin "file or folder not found" error connecting to Windows shares

Post your smb.conf file using this command...

sed -r '/^(\s*#|$|;)/d;' /etc/samba/smb.conf

courageux

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Registered: 2015-07-15

Posts: 15

Re: Dolphin "file or folder not found" error connecting to Windows shares

Post your smb.conf file using this command...

sed -r '/^(\s*#|$|;)/d;' /etc/samba/smb.conf

[global]
   workgroup = customeworkgroup
   server string = Samba Server
   printcap name = /etc/printcap
   load printers = yes
   log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
   max log size = 50
   security = user
 name resolve order = lmhosts bcast host
   dns proxy = no 
[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no
   writable = yes
[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba
   browseable = no
   guest ok = no
   writable = no
   printable = yes

Also when I use smb4k although it works it keeps displaying this error through notifications.

Last edited by courageux (2015-07-15 15:13:22)

Malkymder

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Re: Dolphin "file or folder not found" error connecting to Windows shares

Forgot to ask for the output of this as well

testparm

courageux

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Re: Dolphin "file or folder not found" error connecting to Windows shares

Forgot to ask for the output of this as well

testparm

Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[homes]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE

Malkymder

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Registered: 2015-05-13

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Re: Dolphin "file or folder not found" error connecting to Windows shares

Have you tried mounting it directly (replace with the actual ip of your Windows machine's IP)

mount -t cifs //192.168.1.xxx/{windowshare} /home/{youruser}/{somefolder}

courageux

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Registered: 2015-07-15

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Re: Dolphin "file or folder not found" error connecting to Windows shares

Have you tried mounting it directly (replace with the actual ip of your Windows machine's IP)

mount -t cifs //192.168.1.xxx/{windowshare} /home/{youruser}/{somefolder}

Yes that is what smb4k does and that works.

Malkymder

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Re: Dolphin "file or folder not found" error connecting to Windows shares

how about

smb://user@server/share

also this is kde 4 or plasma ?

courageux

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Registered: 2015-07-15

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Re: Dolphin "file or folder not found" error connecting to Windows shares

how about

smb://user@server/share

also this is kde 4 or plasma ?

This one brings up the folder not found issues and does not see some folders sometimes even though they exist etc.

I am in Plasma 5 but dolphin is not yet ported to frameworks 5.

Also there is a similar issue in Nautilus on Ubuntu.

Malkymder

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Registered: 2015-05-13

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Re: Dolphin "file or folder not found" error connecting to Windows shares

Tried using the linux-lts kernel to see if it could be related to a kernel problem ?

Current is 3.14 i believe and is older then the other distro you used to check....

sudo pacman -S linux-lts

Install_the_linux-lts_package

courageux

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Registered: 2015-07-15

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Re: Dolphin "file or folder not found" error connecting to Windows shares

Tried using the linux-lts kernel to see if it could be related to a kernel problem ?

Current is 3.14 i believe and is older then the other distro you used to check....

sudo pacman -S linux-lts

Install_the_linux-lts_package

How is that supposed to help?

Malkymder

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Registered: 2015-05-13

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Re: Dolphin "file or folder not found" error connecting to Windows shares

Far fetched i know.... Probably won't... my thinking on this was since it does the same on Ubuntu and arch and both use a kernel 3.19+ that it could be something to try...

courageux

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Registered: 2015-07-15

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Re: Dolphin "file or folder not found" error connecting to Windows shares

Far fetched i know.... Probably won't... my thinking on this was since it does the same on Ubuntu and arch and both use a kernel 3.19+ that it could be something to try...

Does not work on an older computer, my newer one has issues with older kernels.