Can not access network drive

Hope someone can help. I having been running Debian wheezy for my CNC machine and had no problems. I have a network drive on a Windows 7 system which the program can access with no problem. I have recently upgraded to Debian 10 buster and now I can not see my network drive. Searching the web a recommendation I found was to install gvfs-backends which got rid of an error message “ /ON”. Now when I open file manager and go browse network I get Windows Network which disappears when click on it.

did you try to type in the IP into the address bar in the file manager?

smb://192.168.x.y to access your win 7 machine or whatever your IP is.

what file manager are you using? (help -> about)

Thanks for the reply. My file manager is Thunar 1.8.4. I can ping the win 7 machine
from the terminal program but not form the address bar in file manager.
Jan

This is what I did to get it working:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install caja
sudo apt remove caja
sudo apt autoremove

This installs caja, which could make an smb connection to a windows machine. The caja package installed something to make it also work in thunar, I can't tell you for sure what it was but I guess if you just install samba-libs and libsmbclient it could also work without having to install caja and removing it again.

After doing this you can enter smb://192.168.x.y/ into the address bar and you should be able to browse your windows drive to find the folder you want.
Right click on the folder "Send To -> Side Pane" will add a shortcut to the left side under "Places". You can right click on that shortcut to rename it to something sensible.

Good luck

The thing that caja installed that made thunar work was probably gvfs-fuse.

Thanks for your input. I followed your instructions
sudo apt update
sudo apt install caja
sudo apt remove caja
sudo apt autoremove

but when I put in smb://10.0.0.251/ in the address bar I get
Failed to open File System
Failed to retrieve share list from server: invalid argument

I checked and samba-libs and libsmbclient are both already installed.
Thanks Jan

Try installing the cifs-utils package

sudo apt install cifs-utils

maybe those are missing?

The cable company supplied me with a new router a couple of weeks ago. The ip address have changed. My win 7 box is 10.0.0.251 and my Debian box is 10.0.0.133.
When I put in ip a it does come back as 10.0.0.133

I installed cifs-utils and seems to be no change in opening network drives.