My laptop cannot connect to the samba shares I see in Dolphin. Whenever I click any share, I get No connection to server for smb://....
The server side is OK. Other PCs with Win10, Win11, Arch, Ubuntu and EOS can connect to them without issues. It’s just this one laptop with a fairly standard EOS install. I have already removed firewalld. What can I do and where to look to solve the issue?
Can you connect by IP? Is it only the name that isn’t working?
Do you have samba installed?
Connect by IP: yes. It’s only the name that isn’t working. Samba is installed, with an empty /etc/samba/smb.conf.
But I have no idea where to fix this on a client. Dolphin sees the servers, it just won’t open to the shares when I click on the server names. When I enter the IP address in the address bar, I can see the shares and connect to them.
Do you mdns enabled in /etc/nsswitch.conf?
That was it. I feel ashamed since I had the issue before and completely forgot.
One other, maybe related, question: Each of my servers appears twice in Dolphin (only once in Android or Windows). One entry is like the NETBIOS name (all caps) and the other like a DNS entry, mixed caps and my internal domain (.lan) at the end. It’s a bit annoying. This happens on every Linux/KDE system, EOS, Arch, Ubuntu. Is there a way to show only one entry, like in Android and Windows?
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