From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 12/18/2025 10:39 AM, J.O. Aho wrote:   
   > On 18/12/2025 15.54, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2025-12-18 15:05, vallor wrote:   
   >>> At 18 Dec 2025 09:11:41 GMT, "Jeff Gaines"  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I ran into my Linux bete-noir in trying to connect to the Network to   
   >>>> copy my books over, I need a file manager that shows Windows shares   
   >>>> instead of torturing my poor old brain into remembering the magic   
   >>>> incantation :-)   
   >>>   
   >>> Thunar has a "Network" tab that seems to work fine:   
   >>>   
   >>>     https://ibb.co/r2ZvyfMw   
   >>   
   >> On my setup it only shows one laptop, and there are two powered up since   
   some days, plus a 24*7 miniserver with active nfs shares. None of those are   
   seen by Thunar.   
   >>   
   >> There is also an icon for "Windows network" which does nothing when   
   clicked, probably because the samba service errors out on boot. There is a   
   Windows 11 on a VM in this same machine.   
   >   
   > maybe you don't have gvfs-smb installed, not sure what the package may be   
   named in other distros   
   >   
      
   You'd have to check what daemons were running and see if   
   there is an "interesting" one or two in the collection.   
      
      smbd   
      nmbd   
      wsdd   
      
   For gvfs-smb, I see a wsdd down at the end of the extended list here.   
      
   https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gvfs-smb/   
      
       Dependencies (24)   
       ...   
       wsdd (make)   
      
   Maybe that is what makes the icons appear. I may have tried that   
   at one time, with no success.   
      
       Paul   
      
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