Can't get to Samba gvfs mount outside of Nautilus

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Pretty much what the title says, I’m able to get to my Samba shares just fine within Nautilus, but not outside of it. Two main symptoms I’m seeing:

  1. No gvfs directory in /run/user/1000
  2. No “Open in Terminal” button in Nautilus

Here’s the output of gio info smb://dustin@localhost/dfs:

display name: dfs on localhost
edit name: /
name: /
type: directory
size:  0
uri: smb://dustin@localhost/dfs/
attributes:
  standard::type: 2
  standard::name: /
  standard::display-name: dfs on localhost
  standard::edit-name: /
  standard::icon: folder-remote, folder-remote-symbolic
  standard::content-type: inode/directory
  standard::fast-content-type: inode/directory
  standard::size: 0
  standard::allocated-size: 0
  standard::symbolic-icon: folder-remote-symbolic, folder-remote
  etag::value: 1727842042
  id::filesystem: smb-share:server=localhost,share=dfs,user=dustin
  access::can-trash: FALSE
  time::modified: 1727842042
  time::modified-usec: 607854
  time::access: 1727842318
  time::access-usec: 242000
  time::changed: 1727842042
  time::changed-usec: 607854
  unix::device: 1993426127
  unix::inode: 1

I’m using Fedora 40 with Gnome 46.

I have tried to systemctl --user restart gvfs-daemon as mentioned here on SE, but it didn’t seem to do any good. There isn’t anything overtly suspicious in the output of systemctl --user status gvfs-daemon:

● gvfs-daemon.service - Virtual filesystem service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/gvfs-daemon.service; static)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/gvfs-.service.d
             └─00-uresourced.conf
             /usr/lib/systemd/user/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: active (running) since Tue 2024-10-01 23:02:09 CDT; 15min ago
   Main PID: 10224 (gvfsd)
      Tasks: 37 (limit: 19020)
     Memory: 39.1M (peak: 39.8M)
        CPU: 836ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/gvfs-daemon.service
             ├─10224 /usr/libexec/gvfsd
             ├─10317 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-recent --spawner :1.238 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/1
             ├─10318 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-trash --spawner :1.238 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/2
             ├─10491 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-smb --spawner :1.238 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/4
             ├─11160 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-network --spawner :1.238 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/5
             ├─11169 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-dnssd --spawner :1.238 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/6
             ├─11175 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-wsdd --spawner :1.238 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/7
             ├─11180 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/wsdd --no-host --discovery --listen /run/user/1000/gvfsd/wsdd
             └─11705 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-smb --spawner :1.238 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/12

Oct 01 23:02:09 dustin-pc systemd[1911]: Starting gvfs-daemon.service - Virtual filesystem service...
Oct 01 23:02:09 dustin-pc systemd[1911]: Started gvfs-daemon.service - Virtual filesystem service.
Oct 01 23:07:48 dustin-pc gvfsd[11180]: 2024-10-01 23:07:48,158:wsdd WARNING(pid 11180): no interface given, using all interfaces
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What do you see after opening it in nautilus and using gio mount -l? Also, are you how are you running nautilus? Is it a default system package or a container/flatpak?

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That is because the gvfsd-fuse daemon is not running. This is most probably because it isn’t installed. It is usually part of an extra package (e.g. gvfs-fuse in Fedora)…

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Thanks for the reply, got it figured out though! For posterity: I’m using the default system package.

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This worked fine (to the best of my memory, at least) on Fedora 39 - any idea if it’s intentional that gvfs-fuse isn’t automatically installed anymore? I can always take to the Fedora forums at this point.

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I doubt that it is something intentional. Are you sure it wasn’t installed by default? I see the gvfs-fuse package to be part of comps for the gnome-desktop group, which should be installed by default:
https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/blob/1a7a558db99d895dfb69468927d5d9c1dc7778ae/f/comps-f40.xml.in#_2633