Hi.
I just ran through this post: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Samba. Had to install samba, nautilus-share, smb/nmb, create and grant permissions for my user to be able to manipulate usershares, disable firewalld and a couple of more things. As it turns out, after 3 days, I am able to see the share in my EndeavourOS machine from an Ubuntu 24.04 machine. I could see this EOS computer, the share, and copy a file over to that other Ubuntu machine. The oddest thing is that EndeavourOS cannot see that other machine in the same network hahaha! I worked out a few Arch and Manjaro forums but nobody has run into this situation where the EOS is discoverable but EOS cannot see the computers that can see it.
After a careful read of the Arch link on Samba, I see that avahi needed to be installed. I tried that but didn’t make a difference. After another careful read, I ran into a section about the client side, that needed some package, which I already had installed:
extra/gvfs-smb 1.54.2-1 (28.0 KiB 85.4 KiB) [gnome] (Installed)
Virtual filesystem implementation for GIO - SMB/CIFS backend (Windows file sharing)
I also enabled the winbind section on my machine, but that didn’t make a difference.
Running Press Ctrl+l and enter smb://servername/share in the location bar to access your share would get this going but is there a way to autodiscover like the other machine did on the EndeavourOS shares?
Thanks! I think I am missing a small detail here to get it to work.