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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

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).

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

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.

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:

I am not trying to hijack this thread.
I was interested in this.
I tried to install with this result:

Oops! That library is still in the Test repo. I'll move it to main tonight.

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?

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.

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.

You should be able to install the thunar-shares-plugin package now.

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If instead of going into folder properties, you Right Click and choose Share a folder on your network you will be able to setup the Share.

napsix65 wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:29 pm 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.

I know the difficulty of setting up the computers for employees. Instead of having them share between one another I setup a central share and direct them all to use only that share (we call it the S drive). I set it up myself on each user account at each terminal rather than leaving them to setting up their own shares.

For most of my employees/users it doesn't matter if it's Windows or MX or Mint, whatever. It's hard for them no matter what. I setup the networking and they use it according to my instructions.

If it helps you I find that I have the most success using the IP address instead of the computer host name. Something like this:

smb://192.168.1.101/SDRIVE

instead of:

smb://MXSERVER/SDRIVE

I run into network browser issues all the time and I find that specifying the IP address works better.

Seaken64

napsix65 wrote: Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:24 am 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.

for NFS shares:

mount NFS shares via fstab

Example for fstab entry with noauto-option.

Server-IP:/XYZ /home/USERNAME/XYZ nfs noauto,users,rw,nosuid,dev,exec,async 0 0

NFS isn't working with gvfs on Debian, there is no backend. I don't know why. On Arch Linux there is a gvfs-nfs backend available.

thanks guys, but it is so easy to share one or more folders in the Mate script, in Cinnamon or in KDE Plasma, that for now, I will dispense with the XFCE desktop, whatever the distribution.

Did you succeed with the right-click/share-folder option suggested by Tim ?

think thunar-shares-plugin is a nice helper. Perhaps an additional feature for the MX-ISO. Looks userfriendly.

no im not

i can not share using that