Unable to browse network shares in Nemo

Desktop Environments Cinnamon
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Long time linux user, but havn’t used arch/endeavouros much before. I got myself a t440p and thought I would try a new to me distro.

Since my other laptop is Mint Cinnamon, I figured I would go with the same DE.

Very happy I did!

But, one aspect that works fine on my Mint machine is browsing the network. I have 2 TrueNAS (with multiple shares each) and a few other systems that have shares that can be useful to access. On my mint machine in Nemo if I click “network” it loads all these shares, here it just says “0 files” at the bottom.

I can connect with smb://serverip/sharename but that means I have to remember the exact name and ip.

I have googled like crazy, tried different host lines in /etc/nsswitch.conf, disabled the firewall, changed my network to “home”.

name resolution generally seems to work. I am using “.localhacks.lan” instead of .local (but still some devices on my network get a .local… probably unrelated because it works on the mint machine).

Any ideas would be appreciated.

2

You may need to enable mdns in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

3

Here is my nsswitch.conf, I’ve tried a lot of different things:


# Name Service Switch configuration file.
# See nsswitch.conf(5) for details.
# mdns_minimal added for local hostname resolution by EndeavourOS

passwd: files systemd
group: files [SUCCESS=merge] systemd
shadow: files systemd
gshadow: files systemd

publickey: files

hosts: mymachines mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] files dns myhostname wins
#hosts:          files mdns4 dns wins
networks: files

protocols: files
services: files
ethers: files
rpc: files

netgroup: files
4

This may need to be mdns4 instead, I’m not sure. You still have the firewall stopped?

Check also that you have gvfs-smb and nemo-share installed.

sudo pacman -S --needed gvfs-smb nemo-share
5

Tried removing the _minimal.

dwhacks on t440p ~ took 0s ➜ sudo pacman -S --needed gvfs-smb nemo-share
warning: gvfs-smb-1.56.1-1 is up to date -- skipping
warning: nemo-share-6.4.0-2 is up to date -- skipping
 there is nothing to do

Looking all over google, and installing things like avahi, I’ve probably made things worse. lol

6

Alright, and Samba itself is installed? It looks like the client package is called smbclient. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Samba#Client

7

smb client is installed:

1 extra/smbclient 2:4.21.3-1 (6.9 MiB 27.9 MiB) (Installed)
    Tools to access a server's filespace and printers via SMB

and I believe it is running:

dwhacks on t440p ~ took 12s ✗ systemctl status smb
● smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smb.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-01-09 19:04:36 PST; 11min ago
 Invocation: 6ad55afacd224243a75f893f70ea39e2
       Docs: man:smbd(8)
             man:samba(7)
             man:smb.conf(5)
   Main PID: 1077 (smbd)
     Status: "smbd: ready to serve connections..."
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 18940)
     Memory: 21.9M (peak: 21.9M)
        CPU: 66ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/smb.service
             ├─1077 /usr/bin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group
             ├─1086 "smbd: notifyd "
             └─1087 "smbd: cleanupd"

Jan 09 19:04:36 t440p systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon...
Jan 09 19:04:36 t440p smbd[1077]: [2025/01/09 19:04:36.849445,  0] ../../source3/smbd/server.c:1965(main)
Jan 09 19:04:36 t440p smbd[1077]:   smbd version 4.21.3 started.
Jan 09 19:04:36 t440p smbd[1077]:   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2024
Jan 09 19:04:36 t440p systemd[1]: Started Samba SMB Daemon.
8

Heres a screenshot of a live install of mint 21 (also cinnamon and nemo) showing my network shares with no configuration.

This is why I am so confused.

Screenshot from 2025-01-09 19-41-34
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9

Can you confirm the firewall has been stopped for your testing?

10

Yup, disabled it:

dwhacks on t440p ~ took 0s ➜ systemctl status firewalld
○ firewalld.service - firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
       Docs: man:firewalld(1)
11

I just installed EOS Cinnamon and I have the same issue of Nemo not being able to browse the network. I’ve checked all the same stuff listed above and I think my system is configured correctly.

Did this issues get answered somewhere else?

EDIT: I can mount the cifs share via the CLI

12

I can mountain the shares, or with Nemo if I smb://path/to/share so the computer can definetly see them. It just doesn’t browse the network.

13

Has anyone made any traction on this issue? Still outstanding? I have the same thing going on.

14

Nope, nothing new. Seems like name resolution only kinda works. IP address always works.

15

I think the answer is install gvfs-dnssd