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Cannot browse SAMBA shares/servers with Dolphin on Debian 12 on a sepcific computer (self.kde)

submitted 2 years ago by Xatraxalian to c/kde@lemmy.ml

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Hi, I've installed a new computer with Debian 12 Bookworm and KDE 5.27.5. I am unable to browse SAMBA shares/servers on the network using this computer.

A different computer also has Bookworm installed (but upgraded from Bullseye), and this computer can browse all shares/computers in the network just fine.

All the computers have firewalld / firewall-config installed (with both mdns and all ws-discovery services enabled to pass through), and all computers are running the wsdd daemon to enable being discovered through ws-discovery.

I've tried to disable the firewall on all the computers, but this made no difference.

This is working on all computers except the one I recently built and installed with bookworm. That computer cannot browse the shares/servers (= other computers in the network), but it CAN reach all them by entering smb://computer_name in the address bar of Dolphin. All computers can also ping all other computers.

What could I be missing here? Thanks.

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[–] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Two things spring to mind. Do you have kdenetwork-filesharing installed? I recall it always needed to be added after a clean install.

Secondly, this maybe a red herring but all my stuff uses the address format: smb://computer_name.local/

[–] Xatraxalian 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, installed; just like the gvfs and fuse components. On my older (to be sold) desktop, I can just click Network -> Shared Folders (SMB), and then I'll see all the computers on the network, including the new desktop. However, on the new desktop, this shows no computers, except itself.

The new desktop can reach all the other shares, though by smb://hostname.local/share.

[–] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Weird. Let us know if you find a fix as this sort of info is useful.