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jlacroix

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Registered: 2009-08-16

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Browsing Samba shares in XFCE

I decided today that I'm going to give XFCE a spin on my laptop, to see if I like it better than KDE. I'm undecided so far, but I am VERY impressed with XFCE to say the least. I have everything working the way I want, except one thing. I cannot see my Samba shares. When I open Thunar and click on "Network," Samba shares do not show up. Am I missing something?

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Browsing Samba shares in XFCE

I think you will need fusesmb from the AUR.  Check the details in the Samba article in the wiki

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Stebalien

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Re: Browsing Samba shares in XFCE

You need gvfs and gvfs-smb (take a look at the "Optional Deps" for thunar).

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jlacroix

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Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 576

Re: Browsing Samba shares in XFCE

Thanks guys. I can now see my samba shares listed in Thunar, though if I try to open one, it asks me which program I want to use to open the share. If I select Thunar, it tells me that it can't, saying it failed to set the default application for smb://. Am I missing a step?

trash

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Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 4

Re: Browsing Samba shares in XFCE

Unfortunately, the Thunar in the official repos is a bit out of date.  There is a bug in 1.2.2 that has been fixed in the current version.  In the location bar you can enter:

smb://username@server/share/

and then enter password in pop up(if necessary) as a workaround.

jlacroix

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Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 576

Re: Browsing Samba shares in XFCE

Unfortunately, the Thunar in the official repos is a bit out of date.  There is a bug in 1.2.2 that has been fixed in the current version.  In the location bar you can enter:

smb://username@server/share/

and then enter password in pop up(if necessary) as a workaround.

That's good to know. Do you know if there are any plans for Arch to include the most up to date version? It seems a bit odd to me for a distribution such as Arch to be behind like this, assuming I'm understanding correctly.

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Browsing Samba shares in XFCE

I think 1.3.0 might be a development version hence why its not packaged. You could try thunar-devel or thunar-git from the AUR though.