Comment 45 for bug 1828107

@ BloodyIron It looks like the problem you are experiencing is the same issue as I have had. I think the reason that it works after you kill gvfsd-smb-browse is that your FreeNAS server is advertising itself via mDNS, and gvfsd will see that. You don't need SMB1 or WSDD for gvfsd to discover your NAS. But it is also looking for a "Windows Network" (i.e. the Windows "network neighborhood" or workgroup that shows up as a separate subfolder) using SMB1, and that fails if the server does not provide SMB1. Crucially, however, it fails in a way that leaves the gvfsd-smb-browse process in a bad state where it fails to allow browsing of the server even though it has been discovered via mDNS. I encourage you to take a look at my patch, or to use the PPA at https://launchpad.net/~wmaddox3rd/+archive/ubuntu/gvfs-smb-sharelist-patch. It does indeed look like there is a bug here in that attempting discovery via SMB1 somehow breaks browsing of the server discovered via mDNS.

See also my remarks here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/issues/307#note_1632096