How connect to other PCs on the network

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Hi, new install of Endeavour on my old Laptop. How do I connect to other PCs on my network and share files? On a distro like Mint I would open the file manager and hit network and boom, everything is there. Here, I hit browse network and nothing shows up. Using XFCE.

Thanks

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Here you go: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Samba

But also, you may want to consider Syncthing instead or in addition to this.

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Thanks, I don’t want to synch files though. Just want to access files on other pcs and save to that PC over the network. Last time I synched files I absolutely destroyed all the files on my nas.

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Then use the Samba option.

Syncthing was just a suggestion.

By the way, most Arch Linux based distros are do-it-yourself distros in case you are wondering why Samba was not installed/enabled by default. Not all users need it, so it’s bloat for many.

It came preinstalled/enabled on Linux Mint because things are usually done for you on distros like that.

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Using Samba as @ddnn mentioned provides a means for Windows based PC’s access to your Endeavour system. Samba (SMB/CIFS) underpins Windows networking.

If all your systems are Linux/BSD though, then SFTP is readily available to you, probably with minimal setup (user accounts, firweall and such) and that is vastly more secure than Samba, or the other common Linux/BSD option, NFS.

I’ve not tried any of this under XFCE, but the Wiki article indicates it should work.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Thunar#Using_Thunar_to_browse_remote_locations

Connecting via SFTP might look like this. Under KDE’s Dolphin, this assumes your current login as the username, and will prompt for a password if needed. Hopefully XFCE’s Thunar is similar :

sftp://myothercomputer

You can also specify one or both username and password:

sftp://username:password@myothercomputer

Samba would be similar, just change the protocol prefix:

smb://myothercomputer
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