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Joe,

Thanks for your reply which provides me with more information.

What do you know about Nemo?  I noticed it is installed. When running Nemo, it seems quite similar to Thunar.

I installed Nautilus. When I go to "Other Locations" in Nautilus, I do not see any listed Windows/Samba shares. When I attempt to access "Windows Network", I get the message "Failed to retrieve share list from server..." message so I am guessing there is still something missing in my Debian XFCE installation that would allow Nautilus to discover Windows/Samba shares.  

Thank you for your comment on mapping shares via fstab as I had wondered if mounting shares with noauto would be possible. 

Our main file share is SAMBA, which has worked well over the past years with Windows 7 and Windows 10, and also Debian Linux.

For XFCE, I always install gvfs-backends and gvfs-fuse, then in Thunar I use "smb://[ip address of Share]/[sharename] and bookmark this connection. This process works well for me, but it would be nice if Thunar was able do discover shares as I believe Thunar could discover shares if whatever required supporting packages were installed. Since Nemo is also not able to discover shares in my XFCE computer, I assume other supporting packages need to be installed for this feature to work. But what would they be?

I have a test Fedora Gnome and a LDME Cinnamon computers and while both behave differently, both find our file shares. I was not able to see any difference in file share related packages between the LDME computer and my Debian XFCE, though I expect I am missing something as even Nautilus on my XFCE is not able to discover the file  shares. Of course Nautilus, Nemo, and Thunar work if I explicitly connect to these shares.

George.



On Tuesday, 31-12-2024 at 08:39 Joe wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 07:34:20 +1100
> George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > Is anyone familiar with using Thunar to access Windows shares or Samba
> > shares? I have found that after installing Debian Bookworm with XFCE,
> > that Thunar is 1) not able to display Windows shares or Samba shares,
> > 2) not able to connect to connect to Windows shares or Samba shares.
> > 
> 
> Is it vital for you?
> > 
> > Does someone know how get Thunar to display and access Windows shares
> > or Samba shares?
> 
> I've never tried, but Thunar is generally not as polished or capable as
> Nautilus. It is still under development, still gaining capabilities. I
> can remember when it didn't have 'extract here' for zip archives, not
> that long ago.
> 
> But I mount shares on local directories with /etc/fstab, where of course
> Thunar has no difficulty in accessing them. They need to be mounted
> noauto or boot will hang if they go missing, and are automounted on
> first access. I access shares from various applications, so it makes
> sense to mount them, I don't need to try browsing for shares in
> unfamiliar networks. I'd probably use Nautilus or Konqueror for
> something like that.
> 
> A quick Google does suggest difficulties with Thunar, but then SMB
> shares are always difficult, especially where Windows is involved. Much
> sacrificing of chickens needed. These days I have no shares on
> Windows, but it's hard enough getting Windows to deal properly with
> Samba shares.
> 
> -- 
> Joe
> 
> 

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