From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-18 18:10, Paul wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   None. As I said, I have a samba error on boot that I have not investigated yet.   
      
      
   Having a look at it:   
      
   Telcontar:~ # systemctl status smb   
   × smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon   
         Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smb.service; enabled; preset:   
   disabled)   
         Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2025-12-17 23:09:54 CET;   
   19h ago   
           Docs: man:smbd(8)   
                 man:samba(7)   
                 man:smb.conf(5)   
        Process: 2479 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/samba/update-apparmor-samba-profile   
   (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)   
            CPU: 77ms   
      
   Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon...   
   Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2479]: generating   
   profile sniplet failed   
   Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Control process exited,   
   code=exited, status=1/FAILURE   
   Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Failed with result   
   'exit-code'.   
   Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.   
   Telcontar:~ #   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
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