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share folders on the network
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 5:58 pm
by napsix65
they have not modified the way to share folders on the network, too many steps to share folders, do not know why they do not compile and enable thunar-shares-plugin? it would be as simple as using caja-share, nemo-share, kdenetwork-shareplugin, I do not understand why to get stuck in complicating, when it can be done in a more practical and simple way for the novice user, or better yet, MX Linux should change the desktop to Mate. Unfortunately, I have to continue using Mint Mate
Re: share folders on the network
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:15 pm
by manyroads
napsix65 wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 5:58 pm
they have not modified the way to share folders on the network, too many steps to share folders, do not know why they do not compile and enable thunar-shares-plugin? it would be as simple as using caja-share, nemo-share, kdenetwork-shareplugin, I do not understand why to get stuck in complicating, when it can be done in a more practical and simple way for the novice user, or better yet, MX Linux should change the desktop to Mate. Unfortunately, I have to continue using Mint Mate
Since you seem to indicate a Thunar/Xfce issue complaint, did you report this to them? I assume whatever your concern is, is universal. Sean Davis is the xfce lead (
https://bluesabre.org/tag/xfce/). The xfce site to report bugs or enhancement requests is
https://xfce.org/.
Edit: we certainly hate to see people go... but you should always use the distro & DE that best suits you (Mint or otherwise).
Re: share folders on the network
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:24 pm
by napsix65
see this topic in xfce forums and ToZ replied that thunar-share-plugins is available and functional, and that it does not know why distributions using XFCE do not compile it
Re: share folders on the network
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:29 pm
by napsix65
I have an office with 8 PCs in the network and I can not be explaining to my 8 employees how to add folders in MX Linux, it would be tedious and a lot of time is lost. At the moment they use Mint Mate and share folders very easily. I can not migrate the office PCs to MX Linux. Anyway, in my notebook I use MX Linux 18.1, it really is an excellent distro.
Re: share folders on the network
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:45 pm
by manyroads
napsix65 wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:24 pm
see this topic in xfce forums and ToZ replied that thunar-share-plugins is available and functional, and that it does not know why distributions using XFCE do not compile it
Are you referring to this plugin in MXPI? see image:
Screenshot_2019-02-13_16-45-00.png
Re: share folders on the network
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:15 pm
by MAYBL8
I am not trying to hijack this thread.
I was interested in this.
I tried to install with this result:
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dcihon@mx:~$ sudo apt-get install thunar-shares-plugin
[sudo] password for dcihon:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
thunar-shares-plugin : Depends: libthunar-vfs-1-2 (>= 1.0.0) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Re: share folders on the network
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:21 pm
by timkb4cq
Oops! That library is still in the Test repo. I'll move it to main tonight.
Re: share folders on the network
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:47 am
by napsix65
Would there be a problem with the MX system if I decided to install the Mate desktop and uninstall the XFCE desktop completely? Will MX Linux tools continue to work well?
Re: share folders on the network
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 11:11 pm
by figueroa
napsix65 wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:47 am
Would there be a problem with the MX system if I decided to install the Mate desktop and uninstall the XFCE desktop completely? Will MX Linux tools continue to work well?
You don't sound like your happy with MX. Why are you using it?
For solid sharing on your LAN, I personally recommend NFS. NFS is the native Unix (Linux) network file sharing system and has become extremely stable.
Re: share folders on the network
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:24 am
by napsix65
It's not that I'm not happy to use MX Linux, I just do a cosmntructive opinion and it draws my attention that other desktops have simple network options, and that MX does not have them. So I will use NFS, if as I explained earlier, there is a simpler way to share folders on the network.