I have a QNAP NAS with SMB turned on. We are running the Ubuntu 24.10 on every computer in our office with KDE plasma except for one Mac. If I open Dolphin, click on network, connect to the smb share that is there I can open any of the shared folders. I can open every PDF on the SMB share with Okular. I can open .jpeg files with Brave-browser, or image viewer, but if I right click and try to open a .jpeg with Firefox I get a long error message about not having the right permissions. If I try to open a word file or excel file from the network share, using libre office, I get a permissions error as well. BUT, if I copy that file, to the desktop… those files all open just fine.
It is my understanding, that something like kio-fuse is having an issue with opening anything that isn’t a “kde blessed” application. What is driving me crazy is that I have a few older pc’s that I had originally run ubuntu 22.04, then upgraded to 22.10, 24.04 and now 24.10… along with all the kde plasma updates (but all probably had kde 5.27 or so) and they connect to the share exactly the same, and can completely open any of these files with NO issues. The PC’s that are fresh 24.10 installs (not upgrades from older versions) all cannot open the .doc, .xls (libre office) and .jpeg (Firefox) files but are perfectly fine with the .pdf’s in Okular. They also work perfectly if I copy the file to the desktop… but working off the network folder they just refuse.
I can screenshot the error code, but I have a feeling it is something to do with this kio-fuse thing, but I don’t know how to resolve it. I don’t understand how to install the kio files from git (or if that will solve my issues). I just want to get these machines to work with the SMB share… or some other option. It’s a small office, we save everything to the NAS, and up until me setting up these 2 new computers, I had no issues with Linux and kde opening and sharing files. your advice would be appreciated.