External Storage: smbclient is not installed. But, i installed php-smbclient and smbclient

[NCA]

Hi.

My system:

SO: Linux Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

PHP: 8.3.6

PHP smb: php8.3-smbclient

Nextcloud: 25 Autumn

I intalled smbclient anda php-smbclient via APT

root@srv-cloud1:/# apt install smbclient php-smbclient
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
smbclient is already the newest version (2:4.19.5+dfsg-4ubuntu9.4).
php-smbclient is already the newest version (1.0.6-8ubuntu3).

Restarted host. Activated ‘External Storage’. But, when i go to ‘External Storage’, i recive this mensage:

Either the php-smbclient library (preferred) or the smbclient binary is required for SMB storages.

I don’t use docer.

[DevelOpsMan]

Have you installed nextcloud snap?

Then it is not supported.

When you install nextcloud pure instead, you also need a database like mariadb and configure it.

[scubamuc]

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@DevelOpsMan quite correctly inquires…

@DevelOpsMan

Have you installed nextcloud snap?

@DevelOpsMan

Then it is not supported.

this is only partly so since the snap does not include third party binaries, but connecting samba shares or local network shares works if you do it the Linux way, see

How to add samba shares and local shares to Nextcloud snap

How to add samba shares and local shares to Nextcloud snap as external-storage Snap confinement is a security feature and determines the amount of access an application has to system resources, such as files, the network, peripherals and services. Thus your Nextcloud snap is securely confined from the host system. Unless you specifically allow the Nextcloud snap to access the /media or /mnt directories on the host system, you will not be able to access any other directory outside of the confine…

[NCA]

Okay. Let’s go:

Yes, I installed Nextcloud via snap, following the standard instructions.

From what I researched, SNAP restricts access to the system. I changed the mode to dev or classic. But it didn’t work.

So, I uninstalled and reinstalled with the --dev option and then with --classic, but neither worked.

Then, I uninstalled everything and installed it manually directly on the system. And, voilà, it worked!

Therefore, the problem is ‘snap’!

Now, my Nextcloud is integrated with Active Directory using LDAP and mapped to a Windows share for web access.

So, if you need SMB, you can’t use SNAP.

[scubamuc]

@NCA

So, if you need SMB, you can’t use SNAP.

that is simply false

@NCA

So, I uninstalled and reinstalled with the --dev option and then with --classic, but neither worked.

that is simply wrong… read the docs

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@NCA

Now, my Nextcloud is integrated with Active Directory using LDAP and mapped to a Windows share for web access.

well done, good job