XFCE can't use smb:// on Thunar

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Hi

I can’t use the smb:// URI on thunar (1.6.10), is it disabled or something like this?
I have access too to a arch linux box running XCFE and I can use it there, what I noticed is that
on arch, the gvfs-smb is installed, but I can’t find this package on TW not sure if its the reason.

thx in advance for any help.

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Hi
Probably the gvfs-backend-samba package is not installed…?

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many thanks for this! that solved the smb URI issue!

Unfortunately I did not manage to access the samba share, as I getting an error, I did a search and
I found that bug is still alive on xfce/thunar.

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Hi
Depending on the security, you may need to configure /etc/samba/smb.conf and in the globals section add;


    client use spnego = no

The best way to see what’s happening is to use smbclient, eg;


smbclient -d 2 //<samba_server/<samba_share> -U <username>

You can increase the debug (-d) number for more details.

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Many thanks Malcolm for your help.

I finally managed to access the share, a bit weird solution, sadly the extra param into the smb.conf did not help, so I installed nemo, to see if I can access the share via nemo (as the bug is marked fixed) and now I can access that share via thunar too!