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Nemo 5.8.4 with Cinnamon 5.8.4 & LM 21.2 Can't Mount SMB Servers #232

Closed mbluett88 closed 10 months ago

mbluett88 commented 10 months ago

I am posting this bug report under Cinnamon because when I was using this same Nemo 5.8.4 under LM 20.3 (earlier today) it was able to mount my QNAP SMB server shares without problem.

I upgraded to LM 21.2 today by doing a fresh install (i.e., wiping out all traces of LM 20.3) and now Nemo tries to mount it but receives a timeout message.

I am connecting wirelessly which is working properly as evidenced by Firefox functioning as it should.

smbclient mounts the shares without problem and very quickly. So, the problem has nothing to do with Ubuntu.

When I click on Network in Nemo I see the server represented by an icon. Double-clicking on that icon results in a "You can stop this operation by clicking cancel" message which just sits there until the connection attempt times out.

If I try to use "File > Connect to server" I get a message "Failed to mount windows share: No such file or directory".

What is not obvious with this message is it is not clear that this applies to the share on the server or the field called "Folder" (in the Connect to server dialog box). That needs to be clarified in the message.

I previously created a folder under /media/mike and applied my account ownership over this folder called "docs". And then I used that path in the "Folder" field. So, that should not be the problem.

Again, this worked flawlessly under LM 20.3 and with the latest Nemo 5.8.4 downloaded from Github and compiled and installed overtop the existing version of Nemo. The previous version of Nemo also worked flawlessly.

mbluett88 commented 10 months ago

Ok, I have found how to fix this. I had to install samba and then reboot.

You guys really need to fix that for others so that samba is installed when a person performs a fresh install of LM 21.2. This should not be something someone has to laboriously search for on the Internet. Linux Mint is supposed to be an easy to use platform for people switching from Windows. If things like this are left this way some people will think that switching to Linux is not the right thing to do.