[Network] NFS and SMB shares no longer working

[DarkstarUK]

Did a clean install of 25.10 and went to connect to my NAS drive via Dolphin, which supports both SMB & NFS connections and when connecting to NFS it show's the shares, but won't open them. When trying SMB it tries to connect and then Dolphin just closes, upon reopening it hasn't connected. Was working without any issues on 25.04

Help as I need the shared drives connected as it has work related stuff (please don't make me open Windows 11 to do my work!!!) I followed steps to install NFS client via but made no difference, but surely SMB should work.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

[oshunluvr]

Seems possible you may not have all the required packages installed, but impossible to guess.

IMO, the best solution is to mount the NFS shares in fstab and then just use them like any other directory. If you're using NFSv4 you can mount to a single folder and then access all the shared folders there.

My client fstab entry:

server:/ /shared nfs rw,nofail,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd-device-timeout=10,_netdev,bg,hard,timeo=28,retrans=5,noat ime,nodiratime 0 0

My server exports entry:

/exports 192.168.1.0/24(rw,fsid=0,crossmnt,no_subtree_check,sync,insecu re,nohide,all_squash,anonuid=65534,anongid=560)

Some of these options may not apply to you.

EDIT: Note the spaces in noatime and insecure are a bug in the forum software.

[DarkstarUK]

OK, now the million dollar question, and please forgive me for being a bit of a newbie with this, how do I edit fstab? Not something I have had to do previously, as I stated it just worked out of the box previously.

Thanks (and thanks for the quick response). I'm hoping to stay with Kubuntu (I really don't like the way Ubuntu looks and feels and like KDE), but the shares thing could be a real deal breaker as I do need to use them on both Windows 11 (for Adobe Premier etc and some bespoke software that my job uses that requires secure boot to be enabled to even access it) and Linux (my preferred OS).

[claydoh]

how do I edit fstab

You can edit it with Kate, so you can navigate to the location and double-click the file. When saving, it will prompt for your password.

[oshunluvr]

OK, now the million dollar question, and please forgive me for being a bit of a newbie with this, how do I edit fstab? Not something I have had to do previously, as I stated it just worked out of the box previously.

Thanks (and thanks for the quick response). I'm hoping to stay with Kubuntu (I really don't like the way Ubuntu looks and feels and like KDE), but the shares thing could be a real deal breaker as I do need to use them on both Windows 11 (for Adobe Premier etc and some bespoke software that my job uses that requires secure boot to be enabled to even access it) and Linux (my preferred OS).

There are many very good how-tos on the web for setting up NFS file sharing.

IME, Dolphin has sort of regularly been hit or miss with natively accessing files via a network. I think you'd spend more time trouble shooting Dolphin than you would just mounting NFS or even SAMBA shares. And as I said, accessing them is much more stable when mounted.

Having said that, I can say that here, Dolphin has no trouble "seeing" my samba shares.

[DarkstarUK]

I've got SMB working for now.

There's a quirk of Dolphin that I've never come across before - when typing the address for the NAS I was typing SMB://192.168.0.47 and then pressing Enter (and username/password for the share). It's the way Windows accesses it hence the way it typed it - should have known Windows does things wrong!

However what I should have been typing was SMB://192.168.0.47/ (Enter) and then enter username/password for the share, apparently the '/' at the end is what was causing the issue.

I'll work on NFS during the week. At least now I can access the files I need. I'll finish installing apps and stuff now I know it's working.

Thanks for all the help guys, appreciate it.