Nextcloud External Storage SMBClient package missing

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Nextcloud version (eg, 18.0.2): 19.0.2
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 20.04): FreeNAS 11.1 U7
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): Apache 2.4
PHP version (eg, 7.1): 7.4

The issue you are facing: Icewind\SMB\Exception\DependencyException: No valid backend available, ensure smbclient is in the path or php-smbclient is installed

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Y

Steps to replicate it:

  1. Install External Storage
  2. Install package ‘php74-pecl-smbclient’
  3. Add a SMB storage

The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:

Sabre\DAV\Exception\ServiceUnavailable: No valid backend available, ensure smbclient is in the path or php-smbclient is installed

As I have NC19 and PHP74, why would SMB client not work when samba and php74-pecl-smbclient are both installed?

Here is an image of the error

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Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks

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Hello @twlawrenceko I have the same error when upgrading from version 18.0.3 to 19.0.2.
On my server that is based on debian I just gave apt-get install smbclient, and the sbm / cifs share is back to working normally.

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In my case, I have Nextcloud running in a nested docker container. What I did not realize is that smbclient was not installed in that nested container. It was installed in the parent container but I guess that was not needed. Since I am new to Docker and not great at CLI, I used Portainer to reach the console of the nested Nextcloud container and then ran the smbclient install. Hope this helps someone.