<![CDATA[Accessing SMB shares, issues]]>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.
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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

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11088/accessing-smb-shares-issuesRSS for NodeWed, 22 Apr 2026 05:00:52 GMTSat, 21 Jun 2025 14:05:52 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Accessing SMB shares, issues on Sun, 29 Jun 2025 14:35:10 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/86616https://forums.ubports.com/post/86616Sun, 29 Jun 2025 14:35:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Accessing SMB shares, issues on Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:33:30 GMT]]>@ikoz looking for this?
/home/phablet/.config/filemanager.ubports/places.conf

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/86614https://forums.ubports.com/post/86614Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:33:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Accessing SMB shares, issues on Sun, 29 Jun 2025 06:48:34 GMT]]>@harrisonpatm try lomiri instead of ubuntu. It has been renamed in the 20.04 update to allow packaging for Debian.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/86613https://forums.ubports.com/post/86613Sun, 29 Jun 2025 06:48:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Accessing SMB shares, issues on Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:49:20 GMT]]>@ygrex the directory 'com.ubuntu.filemanager' doesn't exist in my ~/.config

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/86611https://forums.ubports.com/post/86611Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:49:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Accessing SMB shares, issues on Sat, 28 Jun 2025 12:38:54 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/86594https://forums.ubports.com/post/86594Sat, 28 Jun 2025 12:38:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Accessing SMB shares, issues on Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:52:37 GMT]]>@ygrex No luck for me unfortunately. I dug around in the ~/.config folder for other places to modify, but still no joy.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/86583https://forums.ubports.com/post/86583Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:52:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Accessing SMB shares, issues on Thu, 26 Jun 2025 11:51:38 GMT]]>@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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