This post is probably a combination of a Help Request, a Feature Request, as well as a Bug Report.
For the record, i LOVE this distro, and consider myself a power user of Linux in general. I also have a decent knowledge of networking in general, mostly on the Windows side of things, so it frustrating to see what a constant struggle it is to get connectivity (shared folders, etc) between OSes.
Out of the box, Elementary OS has a Network Browser integrated with the file system, that when navigating to it, you get an option for "Windows Network". Double clicking on this network leads you to a dialog that it is unable to mount the folder.
If this distribution is intended to be a Windows or MacOS replacement, why can it not have the required libraries and/or configurations either setup and installed by default, or at least some prompts during installation that allows you to connect to Windows shares?
Again, to repeat, i am probably more knowledgeable in this area than the average user, and I have still failed to make networking between my various computers work, after extensive nights of package installs, .conf file modifications, reboots, policy modifications, and the like.
Proposal
During Installation:
Give a prompt during install that will automatically setup any extra required libraries that allow for easy connectivity between Elementary OS and Windows. (ie: Windows network browsing should be able to see network shares from Elementary OS, and Network Browser should be able to see Windows shares and connect to them with proper credentials)
Add some scripts / UI / system that allows a user to run this configuration post installation, in case they did not choose it during initial setup.
Problem
This post is probably a combination of a Help Request, a Feature Request, as well as a Bug Report.
For the record, i LOVE this distro, and consider myself a power user of Linux in general. I also have a decent knowledge of networking in general, mostly on the Windows side of things, so it frustrating to see what a constant struggle it is to get connectivity (shared folders, etc) between OSes.
Out of the box, Elementary OS has a Network Browser integrated with the file system, that when navigating to it, you get an option for "Windows Network". Double clicking on this network leads you to a dialog that it is unable to mount the folder.
If this distribution is intended to be a Windows or MacOS replacement, why can it not have the required libraries and/or configurations either setup and installed by default, or at least some prompts during installation that allows you to connect to Windows shares?
Again, to repeat, i am probably more knowledgeable in this area than the average user, and I have still failed to make networking between my various computers work, after extensive nights of package installs, .conf file modifications, reboots, policy modifications, and the like.
Proposal
During Installation:
Prior Art (Optional)
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