Hi
This is kind of a weird one. I set up a Samba share on my desktop (Tumbleweed) and when I rebooted I was in CLI only. I rebooted, rolled back to the previous snapshot and it worked, set up the Samba share again, rebooted and no GUI again. Using KDE Plasma (or, er, not as the case may be lol) if that’s relevant.
I set up Samba on my laptop (also Tumbleweed) and it all works fine and have no issue accessing it from the aforementioned desktop.
I have no idea how this would even be a thing but is it possible that there is some kind of conflict between Samba and the proprietary Nvidia driver? Is this something any of you have ever encountered? I don’t even know where to begin troubleshooting this.
Does this involve an fstab entry to have a samba share mounted at boot? If so, can you share that entry? If not, can you clarify further here?
Hmm. I didn’t personally modify fstab, but it’s possible yast did in the setup process. I’ll have to give that a look tomorrow.
Just so you know, it is possible to use Dolphin to access remote samba shares on the fly without any mount required. It depends on your exact requirements here.
tbh my requirement is literally just playing around with it on my own system before actually implementing it on a pair of NAS/HTPC machines at my parents’ house. The server in that case will be Windows 10 with the client being openSUSE. The HTPC was previously Kubuntu and ngl it just out of the box saw and was able to access the Windows machine without any setup whatsoever so I wanted to get it working on openSUSE before I rolled it out to them. I’m pretty confident I’ve achieved that end by setting up the laptop as a server and accessing it from my desktop, it just seemed such a bizarre issue going the other way. I’ll definitely have a look at fstab in the morning though because it’s a useful tool to have working.
Is Samba recommended for Linux-to-Linux sharing btw? I’ve always considered it a Windows-to-Linux tool, or vice versa. Whenever I’ve had to access stuff on another one of my Linux machines in the past I just used SSH tbh, but Samba is more convenient for certain tasks.
NFS is a widely used network filesharing protocol, but for casual file sharing between two Linux hosts on a LAN, SSHFS or SFTP can be more convenient:
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