Manjaro is one of the better Arch based Linux distributions, but it has notorious frustrations with Samba. The latest rounds of frustration come from the fact they should have never supported Ubuntu Snaps. Snaps are insecure. Because of that insecurity Manjaro had to add apparmor. That gets us back to the classic issue with Manjaro. Developers behind the distro always view conflicts between packages as “someone else’s problem.” Creating Your Share I had a spare … A Samba Share on ManjaroRead more
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Getting Samba Share to Work on MX Linux
I really like MX Linux, but with Samba Shares they shot themselves in the foot. The GUI tool is nice, but they made some bad decisions. Yes, I’ve written about Samba Shares and NAS before on this blog. If developers would just quit dicking with it, adopt a single standard, and live with that, you wouldn’t need so many blog posts. Gotta admit, the GUI tool is straight forward. You have a nice dialog for … Getting Samba Share to Work on MX LinuxRead more
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How to Make Manjaro 20.2 work with NAS
You installed Manjaro because you wanted a modern Linux without Ubuntu bloat. Now you can’t find your NAS.