Xubuntu Browsing SAMBA shares with Thunar and FUSESMB

I've been researching this a lot. And so have lots of other Xubuntu users. Including a user called Brian, who pointed out a how-to, called "Xubuntu - Thunar Native Windows Network Browsing" , posted by Tazix on ubuntuforums.org. I have tried this out and it works very well. Once set up, this will give you SMB browsing from within Thunar. This solution and pyNeighborhood both satisfy my requirements. This solution is slightly easier to use for SMB browsing once it set up, but pyNeighborhood includes the ability to browse and mount CIFS filesystems. Choose whatever suits.

Just follow Tazix's how-to. Here is a screenshot to help illustrate step 5.

And this is what you should end up with in Thunar, if everything works out:

This solution, which makes use of a FUSE (in this case, fusesmb), appears closest to that discussed by the Xubuntu and Thunar developers. Hopefully, this kind of functionality will be included into Xubuntu/Thunar in the near future because there is definitely a user requirement for this.

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