I believe my NAS uses NFS instead of SMB. And I believe Nautilus supports this and Dolphin doesn't by default. Can that be arranged?

    Archdevil I believe my NAS uses NFS instead of SMB.

    I don't believe that Synology makes a NAS that can't support Windows networks. I strongly suspect that it supports both prodocols, just like mine. I'm curious, what model is yours?

    When you click on Network in Dolphin on your Plasma system, does it not look like this?

    And if you use it to display your NAS shares, does it not look like this?

    If it does, then your NAS clearly supports smb, as it says at the top of each of those listings. (It supports ftp, as well.)

        WetGeek To be fair, I cannot see my SMB drive from Dolphin without linking directly to it with an address. If @Archdevil can find what the address of the device is then we will have a better idea of how to move on from here.
        Also Dolphin has lots of additional helper applications that might make finding his device easier.

            BuzzPCSOS To be fair, I cannot see my SMB drive from Dolphin without linking directly to it with an address.

            Are you talking about an NAS (network attached storage) or simply a remote disk that you access via smb? I ask, because there's a big difference. An NAS is - among other things - a file server, not a file. It's understandable that they would be accessed differently by a file manager. Archdevil and I are both using Synology NASs, which are small Linux systems.

                WetGeek I have a WD MyCloud on my home wireless network. Solus Plasma with Dolphin has never seen it but back when I was using Budgie I could access the drive even from the live boot image.
                Sorry if I have confused the issue here but the symptoms @Archdevil described sounded exactly like the issue that I had when I made the switch.

                    BuzzPCSOS Sorry if I have confused the issue here

                    No worries ... I just wanted to make sure we weren't comparing apples to wheel bearings.

                    It's been a polite discussion so far, but I've already said all I have to say on the subject, and I'm not here to embarrass anybody or argue with anyone's beliefs, so I'm going to duck out for now, hopefully before anything like that happens.

                        😄

                        WetGeek 😄 Rusty wheel bearings is what I mostly run on these days, being polite is what makes us civilised.

                          BuzzPCSOS This is exactly what I mean. I can add SMB, but it should not be necessary to do so. When I run Nautilus on Debian it works without issues too. It's a Dolphin thing, but I believe it can be fixed.

                              Archdevil It's a Dolphin thing, but I believe it can be fixed.

                              Just curious .. it's been a long thread, and I've lost track of what you believe can be fixed. Remind me?

                                Not trying to tread on toes here, this is just the way I am seeing it.
                                The part of Dolphin that needs fixing is that it can't see NFS?
                                Much of what we take for granted happens behind the scenes, we push a button and the desired thing happens. Surely the objective here is to achieve the goal rather than how we get there?
                                If SMB is really something that must be avoided, then please take up the very kind offer to show you how to let Dolphin show a list of your shares using NFS which was made by @WetGeek very early on in this thread.

                                I have seen 2 references to nautilus in the thread I thought we got rid of it?

                                  Axios I thought we got rid of it?

                                  Not completely. One can still install it from the repo.

                                  I thought it might still be the default for the GNOME DE, but whatever is used there is simply called Files. Even in the Preferences > Help > About menu item, all we can see is just Files. And eopkg can't find Files in the repo, so the info command is no help.

                                      WetGeek Nautilus still is the default file browser for GNOME. Files is just the simplified name for it that gets displayed in StartMenu respective GNOME dash/appgrid. So, no matter if I launch nautilus or files, it's always nautilus that will come up. In the same way evince is called document viewer.
                                      You can see this if you inspect nautilus desktop file in /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop
                                      There you will find Name=Files

                                          Sebastian Nautilus still is the default file browser for GNOME.

                                          Thanks, I thought that might be the case. The recent discussions about getting rid of Nautilus were with respect to the Budgie DE, if I remember correctly.

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