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I've already figured out the answer, but decided to post this as a Q+A here because this bothered me for ages and it took a long time to find the solution.

Hoping this will be of use to others (or even myself) in future...


Unable to browse network with Thunar.

OS: Debian XFCE (minimal network install)

Issue: Open Thunar and click "Network" -> error appears stating that operation is not supported

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The issue is that the minimal/network Debian install comes with exactly that - minimal packages.

In particular it is missing any support for Samba.

For browsing to work in Thunar:

sudo apt install gvfs-backends gvfs-bin

You may also require some or all of these packages:

sudo apt install smbclient samba

Additional note: My samba share is hosted on a TrueNAS instance. I needed to go to:

Network -> Global Configuration -> Enable "NetBIOS-NS"
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  • Xubuntu 22.04, Feb 2023 - gvfs-bin seems to be deprecated, but just installing gvfs-backends and smbclient solved my problem.
    – demaniak
    Feb 1, 2023 at 8:40

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