Dear Maintainers,

I have a Samba server providing shares (some require credentials, some
anonymous). I have two Bullseye desktop, one running Gnome from which I
send this bug report, another running Cinnamon. I use Nemo on both
computers.

Mounting is done with Nemo via GIO/GVFS and works perfectly. However, if
I unmount the share, and then remount it, issue arise: when I click on
the share name in Nemo's left pane, a popup window appear saying:

1. On the Gnome desktop: "Could not display
"smb://my-server.local/my-share/". The location is not a folder."

2. On the Cinnamon desktop (translated from French): "Unknown file type.
No program is associated to file "smb://my-server.local/my-share". Use
Open dialog to choose a program to open it." Here I can click on "Choose
a program" and select Nemo to open it, but then I face the popup 1.

A simple fix on both desktops is to kill Nemo (just closing the window
is not enough) and then restart it. A simple .desktop file in the right
place does the job for non technical users.

I have no idea if bug is still present in testing/sid or upstream and
have no time to test it for the moment, sorry.

Thanks for your time and work,
Yvan

Hi Yvan,

thanks for the report, and sorry for the very late reply.

This was fixed upstream in nemo 5.8.4 by
https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/commit/e34140134bdcc701401fed055cb6884c0622fb18:
unmounting from the sidebar context menu left an extra reference to the
location, which prevented it from being mounted again. I tested it on
Debian 13 (nemo 6.4.5) with an SMB share, unmounting from the context
menu and with the eject button and mounting it again from a bookmark or
by typing the address, and it always worked. The fix is included in
Debian since 5.8.4-1, so I'm closing the bug with that version.

Best regards,
Fabio

Thanks for the answer, glad to know that it works now (I am not using
this setup anymore) :-)

Regards,
Yvan

Le 04/10/2026 à 17:31, Debian Bug Tracking System a écrit :