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[xubuntu] Thunar, Gigolo and browsing network shares in xfce

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I am new to xfce (xubuntu 11.10) and was surprised at the featureless, unfriendly Thunar is used instead of Nautilus. Apparently Thunar cannot browse network shares (and many other things) the way Nautilus can. I have read and tried numerous work-arounds but none work very well. So I was wondering if anyone else has a solid recipe for network shares in Thunar? The common Thunar error message when trying to browse a windows network: "Failed to open workgroup, Failed to retrieve share list from server" I tried Gigolo, which seems like a lot of hassle just to access shares, as though (Hardware)

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Weird problem. When I use nautilus and try to "Browse Network" by opening shares on another computer in my network, I get an error message that Ubuntu "failed to retrieve share list from server."

However, if I open a terminal and type: nautilus smb//192.168.1.105, I can browse all the shares perfectly.

Can somone help me troubleshoot this?

Thanks!

this is my first question about ubuntu...

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.

I'm not able to see my workgroup and network shares when clicking on "Browse network" in nautilus. This is very important for my work.

I can access windows and ubuntu folders typing "nautilus smb://192.168.x.x" in the terminal.

smbtree doesn't give anything.

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Hi all,

I've been using gnome for years but recently I have switched to xfce and along with it came Thunar, as the main file browser. I'm fine with it, but I dearly miss the "nautilus-image-converter" extension that enabled me to quickly resize and rotate images in nautilus.

I installed Fedora 17 including all updates. I need to browse the Windows network where I can access and/or view the available shares (folders and printers). I cannot browse the Windows computers on the network. When I open Files from the Favorites bar and click on Browse Network, I see the "Windows Network" icon.

Hi. I can connect via Thunar to sftp; but how to disconnect from? :lolflag: I think there used to be a bookmark of an active remote location in the Thunar's sidebar or was that only in Nautilus?

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sorry...meant to say similar to nautilus in older Ubuntus.As per #!'s website, 'updated Waldorf images Thunar should now startup without delay. This addresses a long standing issue with Thunar whereby under certain conditions it would pause whilst waiting to automount network filesystems'.Does that mean waldorf now provides seamless out of the box windows networking?mardybear

Ok, I think I have a fix. Deleting my Thunar config files helped. But here's the tricky part:You know the "~/.config/Thunar" directory? That apparently is not the Thunar config file location. Instead, I removed "~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/thunar*". After restarting Thunar, my Trash can worked correctly.

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