Can't connect to SAMBA share

[Morbius1]

If you go to Thunar and ask for the server and it's share explicitly: smb://192.168.1.103/Storage
Do you get prompted for credentials or do you get that stupid "Open With" dialog?

[peyre]

I get the "open with" dialog.

[Morbius1]

Well, I can reproduce part of your symptoms.

From Xubuntu 24.10 I ran the smbclient command against my own server. That tells me that the samba client part seems to be working.

Then I ran the following command to mount a specific share on that server:

xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ gio mount smb://192.168.1.103/srvpublic
Authentication Required
Enter user and password for share “srvpublic” on “192.168.1.103”:
User [xubuntu]: guest
Domain [WORKGROUP]:
Password:

That is the backend command that Thunar should be running when I specify smb://192.168.1.103/srvpublic.

It does in fact mount it just the way it should:

xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ ls -l /run/user/1000/gvfs
total 0
drwx------ 1 xubuntu xubuntu 0 Nov 22 15:58 'smb-share:server=192.168.1.103,share=srvpublic'

I can now go into Thunar and view the contents of that share.

This tells me that the backend process works as it should.

However if I unmount the share, close Thunar, reopen Thunar and specify smb://192.168.1.103/srvpublic I get the "stupid Open With" dialog as if it has no idea what I'm talking about,

I truly have no idea what's going on there. Sure sounds like a bug to me.

[peyre]

Huh! Well thanks for taking the time. Maybe I just won't be able to do this for a while. Ironic that it works Windows-Linux, but not Linux-Linux.

[Morbius1]

Two interesting items:

[1] Gigolo, already installed in Xubuntu, can access the server and it's share just fine using Actions > Connect and will display it's contents in Thunar if desired. You can use gigolo to bookmark this connection if you want.

[2] There was a bug report submitted to XFCE through redhat that describes this exact situation:

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install all Fedora 15 XFCE spin updates and gvfs-smb.
2. Try to navigate to a Windows or other share using SMB.
3.

Actual results:
Can not navigate to share instead get asked what application to use.

It was fixed 13 years ago:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712469
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7774