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        harrisonpatm
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        From my searches on this forum, and other places, it seems like other people have been successful mounting or at least accessing their SMB shares via either the GUI or command line. I'm having trouble.

        GUI: in the File Manager app, there's a section titled 'Network'. But tapping on it takes me to an empty folder, nothing found. There doesn't seem to be a menu or setting option to select, find, or discover the location of the SMB share.
        screenshot20250620_211918483.png screenshot20250620_211858771.png

        CLI: when mounting via command line, I get "mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
        mount error(19): No such device
        "
        I have already made sure that cifs.utils is installed and active, and I can ping the server address from UT

        Device is Pixel 3A XL

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          harrisonpatm @uwahl
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          @uwahl This was the place. By writing a new file named places.conf in /home/phablet/.config/filemanager.ubports/, I was able to get the File Manager app to access the server. Thanks all.

          Technically solved issue. And yet, performance is incredibly poor. Very slow to load, and read-only.

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            ygrex @harrisonpatm
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            @harrisonpatm
            mounting did not work well for me either, but shares are accessible with filemanager as described in https://forums.ubports.com/topic/4084/file-explorer-pc-files-samba-acces/4?_=1750938606398

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              harrisonpatm @ygrex
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              @ygrex No luck for me unfortunately. I dug around in the ~/.config folder for other places to modify, but still no joy.

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                ygrex @harrisonpatm
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                @harrisonpatm said in Accessing SMB shares, issues:

                @ygrex No luck for me unfortunately. I dug around in the ~/.config folder for other places to modify, but still no joy.

                you dug around looking for what? it is literally .config/com.ubuntu.filemanager/places.conf

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                  harrisonpatm @ygrex
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                  @ygrex the directory 'com.ubuntu.filemanager' doesn't exist in my ~/.config

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                    ikoz @harrisonpatm
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                    @harrisonpatm try lomiri instead of ubuntu. It has been renamed in the 20.04 update to allow packaging for Debian.

                    May the source be with you

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                      uwahl @ikoz
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                      @ikoz looking for this?
                      /home/phablet/.config/filemanager.ubports/places.conf

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                        harrisonpatm @uwahl
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                        @uwahl This was the place. By writing a new file named places.conf in /home/phablet/.config/filemanager.ubports/, I was able to get the File Manager app to access the server. Thanks all.

                        Technically solved issue. And yet, performance is incredibly poor. Very slow to load, and read-only.

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