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I'm receiving an error when attempting to open an SMB share on my newly installed Arch laptop (Wayland and Gnome 42.4) up to date as of last night (9/11/2022). Sometimes I can get into the SMB share, but most of the time, I'm seeing:
Oops! Something went wrong.
Unhandled error message: Failed to mount Windows share: Invalid argument
It seems like if I reboot, I'm able to get in. I've searched that error and it looks like back in March of 2022 there was an issue with smbclient and gvfs-smb. However, those were fixed. What's strange to me is that I'm sometimes able to access the SMB share. For reference, the SMB share is on my TrueNAS install (TrueNAS-12.0-U8). I'm able to access these shares correctly from a MacOS and Windows 10 machine without issue. Also, if I have one share "mounted" in Gnome Files, I can't get another share to mount. I am not adding these shares to the fstab. I'm a newbie for Arch, so your patience is appreciated. Thanks for the help!
Last edited by joltman (2022-09-12 21:14:59)
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So, I'm not sure what did it here to make it work, but it's now "working". I only wanted the ability to browse SMB shares off my TrueNAS server. I originally installed cifs-utils and gvfs-smb. I also disabled systemd-resolved and installed and enabled avahi-daemon.service along with adding mdns to the nsswitch.conf file. At this point is where I made the above post. Every once in a while the shares would be browseable. Then I installed the smbclient and samba packages. I then followed the docs and grabbed an smb.conf file and placed it appropriately and have not edited it at all. I also ran the "sudo smbpasswd -a user" and "-e". I even tried enabling the winbind service. Then shares started working. I disabled the winbind service and rebooted and currently shares are working as expected. The smb service is also not running. However, I don't know what made it start working. If it was the smbpasswd line, then that's even more confusing since that doesn't appear to be a requirement for a CLIENT scenario (at least, according to the wiki). Does anyone have any thoughts on what the magic incantation was that made this start working? I'm trying to put together a list of all the commands I ran and files I edited so that I can rebuild if I need to down the line somewhere. Thanks!
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OK, I was wrong. I deactivated the winbind service and then shares stopped working. So it looks like I need the smb.conf file _and_ the winbind service for shares to work. What's up wit dat?
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