From: user@example.net   
      
   On 18/12/2025 18.47, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-18 16:39, 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   
   >>   
   >   
   > Telcontar:~ # rpm -q gvfs-smb   
   > package gvfs-smb is not installed   
   > Telcontar:~ # opi gvfs-smb   
   > Searching repos for: gvfs-smb   
   > No package found.   
   > Telcontar:~ # rpm -qa | grep gvfs   
   > gvfs-backends-1.52.2-150600.1.6.x86_64   
   > gvfs-backend-goa-1.52.2-150600.1.6.x86_64   
   > gvfs-1.52.2-150600.1.6.x86_64   
   > gvfs-backend-samba-1.52.2-150600.1.6.x86_64  <== maybe this one.   
      
   yeah, seems you have it installed.   
      
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