[Solved] Networking - Caja Can't do Samba?

[azziam]

I've been away after participating here for a short time many months ago after installing Mageia 3. I thought I'd give 4 a try. It's going to be hard for me to keep this post to a narrow topic because problems are inter-related. I get internet over cable fed to a Linksys/Cisco E2000 router. I had 2 PCs plugged into it and 1 Canon MX870 AIO printer. I recently added a 3rd PC and want all these units to share with each other. To shorten the story, Mageia, with Mate DE, which I still prefer, fails to see the other two machines, both of which can see each other and the Mageia /home/user as well. I'm using Samba for sharing because each of these machines also has a Windows installed. I aim to have this setup working universally no matter what is running. Problem is when I browse the network in Caja, I get the message that Caja can't handle Samba locations. In the distro using Mate in PC#3, Caja sees Samba just fine. Is there a reason why Mageia is still using Mate 1.6.3 and not 1.8.1 which fixed a lot of problems? I'm guessing this was one of the things fixed but I never tried to network my other distro when it was on Mate 1.6 so I can't know if it was working or not.

[doktor5000]

Is there a reason why Mageia is still using Mate 1.6.3 and not 1.8.1 which fixed a lot of problems?

Yes, because of our update policy: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy

See also the discussion on the dev mailing list: https://ml.mageia.org/wwsympa-wrapper.f ... 00220.html
and continued this month: https://ml.mageia.org/wwsympa-wrapper.f ... 00330.html

But maybe you're simply missing a package: http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/applicatio ... amba_share and http://forums.mate-desktop.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=147

[azziam]

I'm not finding gvfs-backends in the repos.

[doktor5000]

What about gvfs-smb ?

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[doktor5000@Mageia4 ~]$ urpmq -i gvfs-smb
Name        : gvfs-smb
Version     : 1.18.3
Release     : 1.mga4
Group       : System/Libraries
Size        : 333854                       Architecture: x86_64
Source RPM  : gvfs-1.18.3-1.mga4.src.rpm
URL         : http://www.gnome.org/                                                                                                                                     
Summary     : Windows fileshare support for gvfs                                                                                                                       
Description :                                                                                                                                                           
This package provides support for reading and writing files on windows                                                                                                 
shares (SMB) to applications using gvfs.

But actually you should have that installed already, as gvfs is required by caja, and gvfs suggests the various backends:

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[doktor5000@Mageia4 caja]$ urpmq --suggests gvfs
--suggests now displays the suggested packages, see --allow-suggests for previous behaviour
gvfs-fuse
gvfs-smb
gvfs-archive
gvfs-gphoto2
gvfs-iphone
gvfs-mtp
gvfs-goa
[doktor5000@Mageia4 caja]$

If you didn't install via --no-suggests, then gvfs-smb should be installed on your system.

[azziam]

I chose Mate 64-bit when I installed a few days ago using the full DVD. Searching in MCC Software Management, I'm not finding gvfs-anything.

[I searched again and found and installed gvfs-smb. This did the trick. I don't know why it didn't show up when I first did the same search. Thanks]

[doktor5000]

In software management, you have to change the default filter from "packages with GUI" to "all" too see those. Alternatively as root

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urpmi gvfs-smb

[azziam]

As in my edit above, I redid the search and found it. I thought I was searching "All" but maybe not.

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks