I use XFCE on Arch and with that comes its crusty but functional file manager, Thunar. Thunar has a thunar-shares-plugin package that has literally never failed me until I opened my Arch machine, tried to access the smb shortcut I always use for smb access, and it spit in my face:

Failed to open "File System". Remote peer disconnected.

So what’s cool about this is that it gives this error whether I put in the 129.168.0.blabla into Thunar’s nav bar, or if I put the actual name of the smb in like smb://nasname which is rad. I immediately went to the terminal and sudo smbclient //192.168.0.theip/nasname// -U usernamehere accesses it no problem, I can look at the directory listing and everything. I’ve reinstalled the share-plugin for thunar, reset etc/samba/smb.conf, through which the terminal method continues working fine but thunar continues spitting this obscure error at me.

Every other computer in the house, including other Arch XFCE systems using Thunar can access it. Why though?

EDIT: Thunar update yesterday. Asked to restart smb.service. fixed.

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    • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      sudo modprobe cifs returns nothing :)

      Also though an update went out yesterday that inexplicably fixed it. Which is weird, because the Acer netbook I have running the same setup (XFCE Arch) did not experience this problem despite updating. Wonder why…

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  • Snort_Owl [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    If you run thunar via the terminal maybe if it has some verbose flags you might be able to get some logs that could hint at what’s going on