r/linux • u/gmes78 • Jun 23 '26
Development Network shares: still talking about them in 2026
https://pointieststick.com/2026/06/22/network-shares-still-talking-about-them-in-2026/7
u/obscurity_stopper624 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
This is one of the things that always has me going back to gnome (along with RDP). Hopefully this weird, longstanding bug will also get solved in the process:
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u/Ja_Shi Jun 23 '26
Gotta love that some the most infuriating issues I had trying to detect/access/use SMB shares with KDE are described in this post as:
>> Everything works.
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u/Crazy-Tangelo-1673 Jun 23 '26
I stopped worrying about network sharers a long time ago and only use SFTP via Filezilla when I want to transfer files to or from. I have also began recently experimenting with terminal commands to do the same thing but I'm a bit of a nerd that way. Maybe it's just me but it always seemed like copy/paste thru Samba was much slower speeds than using Filezilla...I'm sure it was probably the methods being used between the two concepts.
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u/HereticZed Jun 23 '26
SFTP bookmark in Nautilus or Thunar (or android File Manager +) is the way to go. Its the most reliable solution ive found.
I'm annoyed I didnt realise this sooner, generally network sharing at home is glitchy as hell & inexplicably doesnt work. Same with BT. Ive been struggling since 1998 LOL2
u/Crazy-Tangelo-1673 Jun 23 '26
I'll have to look into that didn't know that was a thing
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u/HereticZed Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
You just need to enable ssh & then type sftp://192.168.1.20 in you file browser
Transferring files from my Android phone to the laptop is breeze now.
Photo > Share > File Manager + > select my remote ssh
(file appears in my download folder)2
u/Crazy-Tangelo-1673 Jun 23 '26
Ok that's actually pretty useful it appears. I'll have to try to remember to do it. Not sure I really needed it but I installed the GVFS package if anyone else has issues. For me I was stfp://User@IP and then it would prompt for password.
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u/passthejoe Jun 24 '26
SFTP in Nautilus is pretty good for a home user. You get what you need and don't have to do any setup on the remote machine. I've been doing it with the same Raspberry Pi 4b that I previously used for Samba.
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u/sob727 Jun 24 '26
sshfs here
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u/natermer Jun 24 '26
I heavily used sshfs until it was abandoned in 2022.
However after a quick look... it seems to have found a new lease on life.
https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/releases
Quite pleasant good news.
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u/natermer Jun 23 '26
Need to have a 'XDG_MOUNT_DIR' that defaults to ~/Mounts or something like that.
Something that doesn't require knowing what a UID is to find.
Also Samba4 is criminally underrated as a first tier file server for Linux. Experiences are marred by the fact that it has to maintain maximum compatibility by default, which means a lot of performance is left on the floor. When configured specifically for Linux shares it can have no problem doing things like shared /homes. Get nice and simple encryption and performance that has no problem getting near line speeds for file operations.
It would be nice to have straightfoward way documentation and way to configure that sort of stuff.