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Thunar: Failed to open "smb://<address>": The specified location is not supported

I am trying to setup a NAS server on my raspberry pi which can be accessed by my home linux machine running Arch.

This is my config from /etc/samba/smb.conf on my raspberry pi

[Cloud Pi]
comment = Pi shared folder
path = /home/pi/Shared
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
public = yes
only guest = no
force user = root
force group = root
guest ok = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
read only = no

Ran the following command on my home linux machine to load the smb server

thunar smb://<IP address>

And was greeted with 

Thunar: Failed to open "smb://<IP address>": The specified location is not supported
Solution

  • Turns out there were two things I was doing wrong.

    No config file in home linux machine

    I had downloaded the samba package from AUR. On further reading in their official homepage, they say that post-installation, we need to manually create a default config file at /etc/samba/smb.conf.

    I copied the contents from here and pasted it in a new manually created /etc/samba/smb.conf file.

    Missing dependencies for Thunar

    The following packages were necessary to make it work in my case.

    After installing the dependencies, the first time I tried to open a file I had to login using my username & password I had used in my raspberry pi while setting up the samba server.

    Since then, it works as expected.