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Hi,
Thunar cannot browse network. By clicking ‘Browse Network’ on the bottom left, it will just show nothing. It used to be working fine but after a recent update it stopped working properly.
‘smbclient -L <name> -U%’ will show the shares in terminal. <name> could be either IP address or netbios name.
If I type the computer name into Thunar’s address bar, in this format: ‘smb://<name>’, it fill find the share of that computer. Again, <name> could be either IP address or netbios name.
‘avahi-browse --all --ignore-local --resolve --terminate’ will find the shares.
Other computers on the network can browse the network, and they will find the shares, including the share of the problematic computer.
Did any of you also run into a similar issue after an update? Did anyone perhaps find a solution to solve this matter?
Last edited by baal (2025-05-07 11:46:39)
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I'm surprised no one answered this, also surprised this is still not mentioned on the Samba wiki page.
If you are not using the NT1 protocol you need an optional dependency of gvfs, but they depend on the service. gvfs-smb and gvfs-dnssd however was recently split, you probably just need to install gvfs-dnssd and reboot.
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Wow! Thank you, after installing gvfs-dnssd, Thunar became able to list networks!
I had a short intermezzo with wsdd2. After building/installing wsdd2 and running the service, network discovery worked for a while, but then it stopped working after some update; I am still not sure what happened then.
But installing gvfs-dnssd sorted the network discovery problems straight away. Archwiki is not that telling about this though. It only mentions gvfs-dnssd in File_manager_functionality, 2.2.4 WebDAV. I never came across WebDAV; if you don't tell about gvfs-dnssd, I would have never figured this one out. And the pacman info also implies that this package is for macOS file sharing.
Once again, thanks a lot!
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