On 2020-07-17 04:14, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Certainly it can wait.
Well, it will be yet another day since I've had time to do some research and would
like you to try one more
thing.
On the subject of research, I looked into the purpose of /media. I don't know when
that was introduced
in Fedora. I knew it was there, but I've ignored it. Anyway, in reading about it, its
purpose is to be a place
where removable media would be mounted. That bit of information then explains the actions
of Thunar.
Directory entries under /media are treated as potential mount points. Once a mount is
performed
the entry will appear in the Left Panel of Thunar in the Devices area. If you unmount,
the entry would
remain but be dimmed under certain circumstances. Strangely, to me, different types of
mounts are treated
differently.
All that said, and with my local testing, there should be no reason to change the
server's hostname. So,
leave it as smb.
I would like you to make one more test on the client side.
I would like you to revert to what a standard fstab entry should be. (Check my work.
:-) )
//192.168.50.149/bobg /media/smb cifs uid=bobg,gid=bobg,cred=/home/bobg/cred 0 0
And then reboot the client.
When you login to the client as bobg and start Thunar verify that "smb" appears
in the Devices section
of the left panel. And, hopefully, you can click on that and display the files.
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