I have just installed Manjaro on my backup system.
My main system is run on Mageia 5.

As I write am rsyncing from the Mageia to the Manjaro system.
it seems to be working OK.

But I am also running smb4k on both machines.
On the Mageia machine, smb4k shows all the shares of both machines.
The Manjaro system doesn't show any, even its own!

I began to wonder if this was some firewall oddity.
When I looked into this, I could not establish whether Manjaro installs or launches a firewall by default.

Would someone clarify please?

This is a shot in the dark, but, in addition to listing shared directories in /etc/samba/smb.conf, the shared directories must be marked as shared in the directory permissions/properties.

All relevant directory and file permissions were OK.
Quite what you meant by shared was unclear to me.

Does Manjaro operate a firewall?

As far as I know/remember smb4k is just/still a front end to the samba utilities. If the they are not installed or are broken that might cause your problems. In most distributions with package managers it is called cifs-utils but have not played with Manjaro. If nmbd or smbd were not running or if it were a firewall problem then you would be able to see / access the shares from the Mageia computer.

Most file browsers these days have a built in samba client so have you tried accessing the shares from Konqueror or other standard file browser?

I believe that you missed what I wrote.

Samba is working because I backed up a huge amount of data to the Manjaro powered system.

I was just querying why smb4k was not showing anything except the workgroup name.

Not serious but puzzling.

I might of muddied the waters with my explanation. smb4k is a GUI front end for several samba command line utilities to browse and display shares i.e. nmblookup, smbtree and findsmb. If these utilities have not been installed or are broken on the Manjaro system it will not display any shares. It is also possible that smb4k has not been configured correctly.

The workgroup name is read from the smb.conf configuration file.

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extra...b4k/index.html

https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/cur...l/samba.7.html

As stated most file browsers these days have a samba client built in so it probably isn't as useful anymore. I find using a file browser and sftp much easier method to transfer files between linux PCs then messing with samba or even nfs if not already running.

I think that answers it. Thank you.