Bug 456746

How did you set up your domain? Ideally exact steps to reproduce the setup.

Also, https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/Debugging_IOSlaves/Debugging_kio_smb#Reporting_Bugs

Hi Harald,

"How did you set up your domain?"

On my desktop :

marc@Midgard:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       Midgard.Atlantis        Midgard

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

marc@Midgard:~$ cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
[...]
[global]

## Browsing/Identification ###

# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
   workgroup = Atlantis
[...]

On my server :

marc@gallifrey:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       gallifrey.Atlantis      Gallifrey

::1             localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0         ip6-localnet
ff00::0         ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1         ip6-allnodes
ff02::2         ip6-allrouters

marc@gallifrey:~$ cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
[...]
[global]

## Browsing/Identification ###

# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
   workgroup = Atlantis
[...]

The rest of the smb.conf are the default file from the Debian installation.

marc@Midgard:~$ export KDE_FORK_SLAVES=1
marc@Midgard:~$ export QT_MESSAGE_PATTERN='[%{time process}](%{pid})/(%{category}) %{function}: %{message}'
marc@Midgard:~$ export QT_LOGGING_RULES='log_kio_smb=true'
marc@Midgard:~$ dolphin --new-window smb://gallifrey.local
[     0.000](28419)/(kf.kio.core) unknown: "Impossible de se connecter à l'hôte « smb://gallifrey.local/ »"
marc@Midgard:~$ dolphin --new-window smb://gallifrey.atlantis
marc@Midgard:~$ dolphin --new-window smb://gallifrey

dolphin --new-window smb://gallifrey.atlantis -> No error with this command, but no shared folder found
dolphin --new-window smb://gallifrey -> Work perfectly
dolphin --new-window smb://gallifrey.local -> this is the folder, that dolphin want to explore on the GUI by clicking on the network icon

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I think you are suffering from a setup problem. Workgroup does more or less nothing these days so it's configuration is moot.

The reason dolphin wants to access gallifrey.local is because the Samba on it probably has multicast enabled (or rather, you haven't disabled it as per your instructions) and we prefer DNS-SD multicast addresses over any other option. Why that fails to resolve I couldn't possibly say but supposedly either your client or server has a bad/incomplete mdns/dns-sd configuration.

gallifrey works because we will still resolve based on netbios names when possible/requested and that would be the netbios name of your configuration (assuming nmbd is running on the server anyway).

gallifrey.atlantis not erroring but also not showing anything is a bit odd and I don't really have an explanation, it's a bit besides the point anyway because as per your instructions you haven't really set up name resolution properly it seems.

What I would suggest is not trying to use adhoc domains like you are trying to. Either get a proper name server. Or just use the .local multicast domain. Or drive your custom domain using mdns (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/avahi#Configuring_mDNS_for_custom_TLD). Alternatively you could set up your server as proper samba DC but that is a whole lot of work. I would very much suggest you simply rely on .local for name resolution (or use a different suffix as in the arch wiki explanation), it's supported on all Linuxes, OSX and Windows 10+