I installed EOS on two different PCs this week. Both can’t find my LAN shared folders. My LAN has known working shared folders that don’t appear in Dolphin>Network. I’m a low-intermediate at Linux, but all other distribution’s file finder found my LAN shared folders without issue. Mac OS finds them without issue. I can access the shared folder with SMB, but the automatic display of shares in the network folder does not work. I see 4 choices of network shares and tried all of them.
EOS ships with firewalld enabled, which the other distros you mentioned likely do not. Test if this is the issue by temporarily taking the firewall down.
sudo systemctl stop firewalld
It will come back up on its own when you reboot, or you can just restart the service.
If stopping the firewall resolves the issue, it is probably a matter of adding the relevant service as trusted in the zone you are using. This article shows how to do it: https://discovery.endeavouros.com/applications/firewalld/2022/03/
1 Like
I will try that; thanks
I’m hoping that samba is the correct service to enable to allow Dolphon to automatically show the shared folders in the network view. Is that the correct service? Is that the only service? Are there any tricks to enabling it other than clicking the box? thanks.
What were the results of stopping the firewall? Were you able to access the network resource?
If it is a Samba share, then yes, that sounds right. 
You may need to configure mdns as well, see this topic for example:
If you are in the right configuration and zone, that’s all there is to it. Take a look at the wiki link above for a closer look.
following the tutorial (mdms and samba) did work. thanks.
This topic was automatically closed 2 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.