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justasug

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Registered: 2014-11-09

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[Solved] Thunar browse network - showing up twice

When I go to the Browse Network place in Thunar, my current computer shows up twice (masina-l). Does anyone know why this is happening? It's not really a big issue, I'm just curious why.

Trying to open the lower-case one results in an error (connection refused by server). Those other 2 (upper case ones) are Samba shares. I'm running Thunar 1.6.10 on Arch if that helps. I'm not even sure that this is a Thunar issue, but I thought I'd ask just in case.

Last edited by justasug (2015-08-21 14:10:51)

hjudt

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Registered: 2014-11-27

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Re: [Solved] Thunar browse network - showing up twice

It is probably returned that way by gvfs. Try gvfs-ls network:/// in a terminal. Why twice? Don't know. Ask at the forums of your distribution.

Morbius1

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Registered: 2014-07-05

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Re: [Solved] Thunar browse network - showing up twice

Open a terminal and run:

avahi-browse -at

It could be that you have an avahi service announcement for something set up for this box.

justasug

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Registered: 2014-11-09

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Re: [Solved] Thunar browse network - showing up twice

Try gvfs-ls network:///

It only listed the 2 Samba related things.

Open a terminal and run:

avahi-browse -at

It could be that you have an avahi service announcement for something set up for this box.

Yes, that was it.
It listed 2 entries. After temporary removing the 2 files found in /etc/avahi/services/ the lower-case masina-l entry disappeared from Thunar.

Thanks.

Morbius1

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Registered: 2014-07-05

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Re: [Solved] Thunar browse network - showing up twice

I don't know if I would have removed them. Somebody went through the effort to create them for some reason.

It doesn't sound like something Arch would do but if for example you set up SSH on this box and either you or Arch created the avahi service for it it would show up on Thunar along with the samba servers. Editing the avahi service file to include something like "<name replace-wildcards="yes">%h SSH </name>" would have made the Icon under "network" display "masina-l SSH" so that you would know which is which.

justasug

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Registered: 2014-11-09

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] Thunar browse network - showing up twice

I didn't remove them, just temporarily moved from the services directory to see if they're indeed the culprit for the additional icon.
The 2 services sftp-ssh.service  and ssh.service are part of the avahi package. Following your suggestion and appending SSH and SFTP confirmed that the lower-cased one was the SFTP service. It's still strange that it appeared since I don't have sshd running.

Either way, one mysterious item less and I learned something today.
Thanks again.