#1 2016-04-17 22:56:56

Joe90

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Registered: 2016-04-17

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[SOLVED] Thunar & Gigolo not connecting to Samba (linux) Shares

Hi

Just installed BL Hydrogen 2

Cannot connect to my server using gigolo or thunar?

It is a samba server on a linux server, users are passwordless (local lan only)

Other machines both windows and linux have no problems connecting

Have checked for installation of gvfs-backends, gvfs-bin, etc., all seem to be there.

Can connect using smbclient so the route is there.

Both gigolo and thunar find the server and the shares. On authentication I give the user, then it just keeps asking for a password, which is tricky as there isn't one!

All help welcome on this great new distro

Last edited by Joe90 (2016-05-15 09:40:10)

dbvolvox

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Re: [SOLVED] Thunar & Gigolo not connecting to Samba (linux) Shares

I sympathise! I have tried to understand Samba configs but never seem to get very far. In a similar situation to you (except that mine is a windows share) I took the easy way out and set a user and password which did the trick. Not very satisfying I know but pragmatic.

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Joe90

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Re: [SOLVED] Thunar & Gigolo not connecting to Samba (linux) Shares

Hmmm, tried that, same problem with a samba user with a password....

dbvolvox

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Re: [SOLVED] Thunar & Gigolo not connecting to Samba (linux) Shares

Yes, I now get the same issue from other machines running more recent kernels than my BL. My fix up to now was to make the share open to anonymous which works but of course is undesirable. Hopefully short term until we find the answer for a named user.

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Joe90

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Re: [SOLVED] Thunar & Gigolo not connecting to Samba (linux) Shares

Well, seems it was all just being a bit fussy. Completely rewrote my smb.conf on the server, added passwords to all my users, and connecting via Gigolo working fine now

This helped

aris95

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Re: [SOLVED] Thunar & Gigolo not connecting to Samba (linux) Shares

You should try Smb4k smb browser, it is great  Install: sudo apt-get smb4k

I spent weeks to make samba work with anonymous windows shares (so called anonymous "guest shares", guest user should be enabled in windows which somebody might consider security issue)

If everything is right in samba conf you could write directly to filemanager's filepath smb://<server>/<share> , asks for username and password, give your linux username and password, this activates something called keyring feature that should remember username and password, i don't know why this works but it works

(Cifs and winbind should be installed if i remember right)

Last edited by aris95 (2016-07-16 15:46:55)