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I have a Toshiba WT 310, i5 3439Y @ 1.5 GHz 4 GB RAM. 11.5" touch screen.

It runs (actually walks slowly) Windows 8.1 and has always proved too slow
to do anything useful.

I have tried to set it up as a book reader but it's really too slow for
that.

Accepting I can't do anything about the spec is there a Linux distro that would make use of the touch screen and run Calibre (or similar) at a
usable speed? At least I could make use of it then as a book reader.

I do run Linux on one machine but its use is limited to creating iso files with Brasero.

Many thanks.
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On 17/12/2025 11.01, Jeff Gaines wrote:

I have a Toshiba WT 310, i5 3439Y @ 1.5 GHz 4 GB RAM. 11.5" touch screen.Looks to have a few years on it's

Looks like it have a few years on it's neck, I have DELL that's around
the same age, 8GB RAM and no touchscreen.

It runs (actually walks slowly) Windows 8.1 and has always proved too
slow to do anything useful.

I have on my DELL laptop Artix Linux installed running KDE Plasma, I do
surf the net, ssh and read mail. I have played some games and it has
worked quite well for me.

I have tried to set it up as a book reader but it's really too slow for that.

Accepting I can't do anything about the spec is there a Linux distro
that would make use of the touch screen and run Calibre (or similar) at
a usable speed? At least I could make use of it then as a book reader.

I would say most Linux distros will work, even installing KDE
Plasma/Gnome will work and be usable, sure you can go for a light weight
AntiX Linux. Mint Linux should in general be an okay option, enough documentation (debian and ubuntu documentation can be of good help in
many cases too).

I would try out a handful distros, use their Live versions, that you can
flash to a USB storage and boot from on the Toshiba and see if you get
the touchscreen to work and that it feels smooth enough before you
install it.

You may want to avoid Gentoo, Arch Linux as those tend to be a bit more
work to get working.

There is a good number of distros to pick from, you can take a look at https://distrowatch.com and see if there is a more general your taste of distro.

One note about Calibre on Linux, DRM protected books will most likely
still not be readable, you need to remove the DRM before you reinstall
the Toshiba.
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On 17/12/2025 9:01 pm, Jeff Gaines wrote:

I have a Toshiba WT 310, i5 3439Y @ 1.5 GHz 4 GB RAM. 11.5" touch screen.

It runs (actually walks slowly) Windows 8.1 and has always proved too
slow to do anything useful.

I have tried to set it up as a book reader but it's really too slow for that.

Accepting I can't do anything about the spec is there a Linux distro
that would make use of the touch screen and run Calibre (or similar) at
a usable speed? At least I could make use of it then as a book reader.

I do run Linux on one machine but its use is limited to creating iso
files with Brasero.

Many thanks.

Jeff, for many years I Dual-Booted my Win7 HP 6730b laptop with
MageiaLinux Ver 6.

I'd probably still be on the HP .... except the Win7 started deleting
itself .... and I'd already brought this Win 11 Desktop ... so thought I
might as well make use of it.

One day, I'll install MageiaLinux ver 9 .... hopefully before the Devs
release MGA v 10 early next year. ;-P
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On 2025-12-17 11:01, Jeff Gaines wrote:

I have a Toshiba WT 310, i5 3439Y @ 1.5 GHz 4 GB RAM. 11.5" touch screen.

It runs (actually walks slowly) Windows 8.1 and has always proved too
slow to do anything useful.

I have tried to set it up as a book reader but it's really too slow for that.

Accepting I can't do anything about the spec is there a Linux distro
that would make use of the touch screen and run Calibre (or similar) at
a usable speed? At least I could make use of it then as a book reader.

I do run Linux on one machine but its use is limited to creating iso
files with Brasero.

Many thanks.

For old/small machines, you could use "Damn Small Linux"

Touch screen: it is detected a mouse. It is up to each application to
make useful use of the touch screen or not. Meaning, big buttons. For
hitting the tiny slider on a window, or a text cursor, you need small
fingers.

Calibre is the best software I know for ebooks, but if your books have
DRM protection, you have a problem. It is possible to make it work on
Linux, but I failed to do it. I use Windows for that operation, in a
virtual machine.

Personally, I read ebooks in a kobo reader.

About the hardware, you might be able to do some thing. If your machine
has a rotating hard disk, replacing it with an SSD is a big improvement.
Also longer battery life.
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:21:31 +0100
"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-12-17 11:01, Jeff Gaines wrote:

I have a Toshiba WT 310, i5 3439Y @ 1.5 GHz 4 GB RAM. 11.5" touch screen.

It runs (actually walks slowly) Windows 8.1 and has always proved too
slow to do anything useful.

I have tried to set it up as a book reader but it's really too slow for that.

Accepting I can't do anything about the spec is there a Linux distro
that would make use of the touch screen and run Calibre (or similar) at
a usable speed? At least I could make use of it then as a book reader.

I do run Linux on one machine but its use is limited to creating iso
files with Brasero.

Many thanks.

For old/small machines, you could use "Damn Small Linux"

IIRC superceded by tiny core linux
http://tinycorelinux.net/downloads.html
But that's more about minimal HD space. 4GB RAM should be "plenty"

Touch screen: it is detected a mouse. It is up to each application to
make useful use of the touch screen or not. Meaning, big buttons. For hitting the tiny slider on a window, or a text cursor, you need small fingers.

Calibre is the best software I know for ebooks, but if your books have

+1

DRM protection, you have a problem. It is possible to make it work on
Linux, but I failed to do it. I use Windows for that operation, in a
virtual machine.

Personally, I read ebooks in a kobo reader.

About the hardware, you might be able to do some thing. If your machine
has a rotating hard disk, replacing it with an SSD is a big improvement. Also longer battery life.

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On Wed, 12/17/2025 5:01 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote:

I have a Toshiba WT 310, i5 3439Y @ 1.5 GHz 4 GB RAM. 11.5" touch screen.

It runs (actually walks slowly) Windows 8.1 and has always proved too slow to do anything useful.

I have tried to set it up as a book reader but it's really too slow for that.

Accepting I can't do anything about the spec is there a Linux distro that would make use of the touch screen and run Calibre (or similar) at a usable speed? At least I could make use of it then as a book reader.

I do run Linux on one machine but its use is limited to creating iso files with Brasero.

Many thanks.

4GB RAM. 2C 4T processor. HD4000 Intel iGPU.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/72014/intel-core-i53439y-processor-3m-cache-up-to-2-30-ghz/specifications.html

Running dual channel 2x2GB would give the best RAM speed possible.

It's only got 3MB of cache.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Toshiba-WT310-Tablet.105946.0.html

*******

Yours is an optimization problem, where unfortunately, various projects
have "hitched their horses" to various things. Which dooms the range
of possibilities when a question like this comes up.

At best, we can make a desktop computer out of your tablet,
eeking out performance sufficient to make it responsive. But
getting a combo that makes good usage of the screen (supports
rotation, allows easy touch usage), that might be harder
to manage. The DE that are claimed to have the capability to use
the screen, might also result in the thing being a bit slow.

You'll have to wing it and test.

The distro I could suggest that might get slightly better
performance from the thing, it has fit and finish problems.
You might have trouble getting it installed, because at the
time I tested it, it was not possible to determine exactly
what kind of partitioning scheme for bootup it really wanted.
Which is pretty sad. I had to think about it a bit, after
the first failures, to make forward progress. Older equipment
which is only legacy BIOS, present the most challenge.

Optiplex 780 Legacy (a bit more of a challenge)
Test machine UEFI/CSM (Got it running OK)

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=devuan # Gets mostly rid of SystemD, uses X11

But when this does not suit your application, you will soon move
on, as the fit and finish while in beta, did not suggest
it was ready for release. I have to compliment them though,
their web instructions for installing NVidia, actually worked,
and for distros without Driver Manager, you don't often
get first time success fiddling with that.

Being a tablet, there is nothing you can do about the sins of the
design. It appears to use RAM in single channel, when the processor
is dual channel, as near as I can tell from the available info.
You need dual channel on these things, to provide any available
help for the iGPU. The review article says the machine starts to
"gasp for air" when the iGPU is ramped -- the thermal output causes
the CPU cores to throttle and slow down. Not a problem when reading a book :-) But it's not going to play Crysis at 60FPS.

Paul
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:44:05 -0500, Paul wrote:

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=devuan # Gets mostly rid of SystemD, uses X11

Not really something I would recommend for noobs.
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On 2025-12-17 22:19, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:21:31 +0100 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-12-17 11:01, Jeff Gaines wrote:

For old/small machines, you could use "Damn Small Linux"

IIRC superceded by tiny core linux
http://tinycorelinux.net/downloads.html
But that's more about minimal HD space. 4GB RAM should be "plenty"

I noticed that DSL said last version was from 2024 :-?
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:03:37 +0100, J.O. Aho wrote:

There is a good number of distros to pick from, you can take a look
at https://distrowatch.com and see if there is a more general your
taste of distro.

Some advice on options:

<https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-best-linux-distros-for-beginners-in-2025-make-switching-from-macos-or-windows-easy/>
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-5-fastest-linux-distros-ive-tried-and-theyre-all-free/>
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/most-windows-like-linux-distros/>
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On Wed, 12/17/2025 5:06 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:44:05 -0500, Paul wrote:

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=devuan # Gets mostly rid of SystemD, uses X11

Not really something I would recommend for noobs.

I know. But in benches, I got the best results out of it.
The problem with that tablet, is if the iGPU has
to contribute any significant amount of rendering help.

Maybe Gnome would support the touch screen better.
But then, it might represent more of a load. And
Gnome is apparently headed to Wayland-only or something.
And that's going to potentially give a performance loss.

The problem is, the ecosystem is modular, it *should*
have required the modules to "support everything", but it didn't.

Take as an example, Firefox. It supports Wayland, XWayland, X11.
It supports all of them. That's an example of model citizenship.
If you expect modular mix-and-match from the ecosystem, there's
a price to pay for that, and that price is "a little extra work".

I can expect Firefox to run on Devuan, because it already has
the X11 support for the project. I don't know if current Gnome
will run on Devuan, the answer is likely to be No.

Someone who has a ten point touch tablet, will have to tell
us what subsystems it really needs, or features from the DE.
I don't have a tablet to use as a reference for that.

Paul

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On 17/12/2025 in message <xn0pen607l36wue015@news.individual.net> Jeff
Gaines wrote:

Accepting I can't do anything about the spec is there a Linux distro that >would make use of the touch screen and run Calibre (or similar) at a
usable speed? At least I could make use of it then as a book reader.

Many thanks for all the replies :-)

I downloaded and tried the following using Ventoy:

antiX-23.2_x64-full.iso
ubuntu-24.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso
neon-user-20251211-1320.iso
linuxmint-22.2-mate-64bit.iso
linuxmint-22.2-xfce-64bit.iso

Ubuntu was very slow to load and I got in a loop where I tried to zoom the screen and couldn't get our of it! I think as it's a fully loaded distro
it needs something more meaty to run on.

All the rest ran fine and recognised the touch screen as a mouse.

I installed linuxmint-22.2-xfce, went on fine, very responsive, I managed
to install Calibre.

I ran into my Linux bete-noir in trying to connect to the Network to copy
my books over, I need a file manager that shows Windows shares instead of torturing my poor old brain into remembering the magic incantation :-)

I will continue to experiment, there's lots of online articles about
getting auto rotate working etc. so will keep me out of mischief.

Thanks again :-)
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On 17/12/2025 10:01, Jeff Gaines wrote:

I have a Toshiba WT 310, i5 3439Y @ 1.5 GHz 4 GB RAM. 11.5" touch screen.

It runs (actually walks slowly) Windows 8.1 and has always proved too
slow to do anything useful.

Probably on a slow 4200 rpm disc. SSD upgrade?

I have tried to set it up as a book reader but it's really too slow for that.

Make it a thin client and do the heavy lifting and storage somewhere else?

Other than that, locally installed anything with XCFE.

Getting hardware accelerated graphics out of the chipset is key.

Years ago with older hardware it was about getting performance out of
flash in a browser, but thankfully we are past that.



I have similar old libretto / NB100 sized laptops*.

I quite fancy a project removing the motherboard, and replacing it with
a custom one running something Pi. Got no time.... and the fun in doing
that is greater than the fun in using it (unless it became a home
automation remote control), being that I'm drowned in very affordable ultraportable Core i5/i7 these days with amazing battery life and cheap spares.


* I have junk. I have a problem.
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On Thu, 12/18/2025 4:11 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote:

On 17/12/2025 in message <xn0pen607l36wue015@news.individual.net> Jeff Gaines wrote:

Accepting I can't do anything about the spec is there a Linux distro that would make use of the touch screen and run Calibre (or similar) at a usable speed? At least I could make use of it then as a book reader.

Many thanks for all the replies :-)

I downloaded and tried the following using Ventoy:

antiX-23.2_x64-full.iso
ubuntu-24.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso
neon-user-20251211-1320.iso
linuxmint-22.2-mate-64bit.iso
linuxmint-22.2-xfce-64bit.iso

Ubuntu was very slow to load and I got in a loop where I tried to zoom the screen and couldn't get our of it! I think as it's a fully loaded distro it needs something more meaty to run on.

All the rest ran fine and recognised the touch screen as a mouse.

I installed linuxmint-22.2-xfce, went on fine, very responsive, I managed to install Calibre.

I ran into my Linux bete-noir in trying to connect to the Network to copy my books over, I need a file manager that shows Windows shares instead of torturing my poor old brain into remembering the magic incantation :-)

I will continue to experiment, there's lots of online articles about getting auto rotate working etc. so will keep me out of mischief.

Thanks again :-)

That's not a problem.

Network neighbourhood, I don't think I've been able to get that
running in Samba.

My Notes file stanzas are too terse. But this will
give a supply of breadcrumbs for some future day.
Some of these things are never going to work. The six lines
at the top, can clear a head cold. The ones further down, not
so much. And yes, if you set up a share on your distro,
you can pay the authentication tax by using smbpasswd. It seems
the authentication for a share, is carried separately from the
authentication to log into your distro. More details here.
I usually look into this, when doing the obvious-thing is not working.

https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smbpasswd.8.html

*******
workgroup = WORKGROUP # /etc/samba/smb.conf
server min protocol = NT1
server max protocol = smb3
client min protocol = NT1
client max protocol = smb3
ntlm auth = yes

wins support = yes \
local master = yes \___ Some things never work...
preferred master = yes /

sudo apt install wsdd <=== network neighbourhood?
(haven't seen one of those in about twenty years...)
sudo smbpasswd -a bullwinkle

*******

Now, since you're doing client right now,
you don't need to do much.

The package for samba, is like this:

sudo apt install samba

That's just in case it doesn't look like something is going to work.
You can look into that. Working parts are smbd, nmbd, (and wsdd if
it did anything).

This is what i use *every day*. Yes, it does know the name, it's
just not going to show you an icon (because that a separate work of art).

nemo smb://wallace/shared
thunar smb://wallace/shared
caja smb://wallace/shared
nautilus smb://wallace/shared

You don't have to do it this way, but if necessary this can work too.

nemo smb://192.168.1.3/shared
thunar smb://192.168.1.3/shared
caja smb://192.168.1.3/shared
nautilus smb://192.168.1.3/shared

You could scan from your machine with "nbtscan" on Linux,
but the output isn't quite as nice as the Windows version.
But at least the nbtscan shows you there are machines on the LAN.

https://manpages.debian.org/testing/nbtscan/nbtscan.1.en.html

nbtscan 192.168.1.0/24 # Scan 255 or so addresses.
# Check to see if anyone is home.
# Most useful field is IP-address.

192.168.1.3 WALLACE PAUL 00-a0-c9-12-34-56 <=== MACADDR isn't much use

The Windows version includes the workgroup= value.

Paul



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On 18/12/2025 10.11, Jeff Gaines wrote:

All the rest ran fine and recognised the touch screen as a mouse.

I installed linuxmint-22.2-xfce, went on fine, very responsive, I
managed to install Calibre.

Nice you got a good match for you.

I ran into my Linux bete-noir in trying to connect to the Network to
copy my books over, I need a file manager that shows Windows shares
instead of torturing my poor old brain into remembering the magic incantation :-)

The built in file browser thunar seems to need the gvfs-smb to be
installed before it can use the smb://server/share/path

I know dolphin and pcmanfm handles it too, think they also uses the same gvfs-smb and they will pull in a lot of new packages as they are part of
QT framework instead of the gtk that xfce is based on.

I will continue to experiment, there's lots of online articles about
getting auto rotate working etc. so will keep me out of mischief.

Just for a while ;)
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On Thu, 12/18/2025 6:26 AM, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

On 17/12/2025 10:01, Jeff Gaines wrote:

I have a Toshiba WT 310, i5 3439Y @ 1.5 GHz 4 GB RAM. 11.5" touch screen.

It runs (actually walks slowly) Windows 8.1 and has always proved too slow to do anything useful.

Probably on a slow 4200 rpm disc. SSD upgrade?

I have tried to set it up as a book reader but it's really too slow for that.

Make it a thin client and do the heavy lifting and storage somewhere else?

Other than that, locally installed anything with XCFE.

Getting hardware accelerated graphics out of the chipset is key.

Years ago with older hardware it was about getting performance out of flash in a browser, but thankfully we are past that.

I have similar old libretto / NB100 sized laptops*.

I quite fancy a project removing the motherboard, and replacing it with a custom one running something Pi. Got no time.... and the fun in doing that is greater than the fun in using it (unless it became a home automation remote control), being that I'm drowned in very affordable ultraportable Core i5/i7 these days with amazing battery life and cheap spares.

* I have junk. I have a problem.

The Jeff machine has NAND flash based storage.

Toshiba THNSNF128GMCS

Sequential Read 471 MBytes/Sec
Sequential Write 375 MBytes/Sec

It's an MSATA or something.

That should give a good boot time.

Paul


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On 2025-12-18 10:11, Jeff Gaines wrote:

On 17/12/2025 in message <xn0pen607l36wue015@news.individual.net> Jeff Gaines wrote:

I ran into my Linux bete-noir in trying to connect to the Network to
copy my books over, I need a file manager that shows Windows shares
instead of torturing my poor old brain into remembering the magic incantation :-)

I will continue to experiment, there's lots of online articles about
getting auto rotate working etc. so will keep me out of mischief.

Thanks again :-)

You can try to send the files from Windows instead.

First step, is making sure the sshd daemon is running in Linux. I'm not familiar with Mint, so somebody else can fill in.

Then, in Windows, install "WinSCP"
(<https://winscp.net/eng/download.php>). Use it to connect to the linux machine using protocol sftp. You need to know the IP address of the
linux machine (run "ip addr" in a Linux terminal).

You will get a file browser with which to send files from Windows to
Linux (or the reverse).

Another interesting tool for Windows is MobaXTERM.
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At 18 Dec 2025 09:11:41 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

I ran into my Linux bete-noir in trying to connect to the Network to
copy my books over, I need a file manager that shows Windows shares
instead of torturing my poor old brain into remembering the magic
incantation :-)

Thunar has a "Network" tab that seems to work fine:

https://ibb.co/r2ZvyfMw

It shows two entries for "DT", my Synology Diskstation. The
first is the SMB share, because when I double-click on it
the authentication dialog includes a "Domain" of "WORKGROUP".

The second is either NFS or AFP, I can't tell. (The
"mount" isn't a system mount -- it uses gvfsd.)
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On Wed, 12/17/2025 5:06 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:44:05 -0500, Paul wrote:

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=devuan # Gets mostly rid of SystemD, uses X11

Not really something I would recommend for noobs.

I gave the Devuan6.00 Release a try. This is an installer, not a LiveDVD.

Name: devuan_excalibur_6.0.0_amd64_desktop.iso
Size: 4244701184 bytes (4048 MiB)
SHA256: FD9BEA571645CFD4FF1A71E66599E3FA6D03A5DB2E782273A6947BDAC3A3FFF6

Tried a DVD, which failed to complete
(the DVD gets ejected before the install completes, install hangs at "43%" as a result).

Tried a USB stick, worked fine, although the installer
changed from a GUI thing they were working on, to a
legacy Debian installer people have likely seen before.

[Picture] Devuan inxi output (XFCE default, MATE to go with "slim", then GNOME)
Needs the NVidia driver recipe next. For Jeff, this would be an Intel recipe.

https://imgur.com/a/Mdh1hq2

The XFCE is the default tick box in the installer.
The MATE package was "mate-desktop-environment" (so I could test that Slim can select a DE).
The GNOME desktop was "gnome".

The disk is MSDOS partitioned (as I booted in Legacy mode as
an emulation of a slightly older computer). The first partition
was a SWAP partition, the second partition was / . The installed
file set isn't all that big, so using 100GB for slash, when
only 10GB or so of files were there, is a bit wasteful, but it
will fill up fast with usage and more packages (or DEs) added.

Haven't tried a UEFI with this hybrid USB key quite yet.

The project still requires that the HD4000 (Intel iGPU) have a driver.

Paul
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On 2025-12-18 15:05, vallor wrote:

At 18 Dec 2025 09:11:41 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

I ran into my Linux bete-noir in trying to connect to the Network to
copy my books over, I need a file manager that shows Windows shares
instead of torturing my poor old brain into remembering the magic
incantation :-)

Thunar has a "Network" tab that seems to work fine:

https://ibb.co/r2ZvyfMw

On my setup it only shows one laptop, and there are two powered up since
some days, plus a 24*7 miniserver with active nfs shares. None of those
are seen by Thunar.

There is also an icon for "Windows network" which does nothing when
clicked, probably because the samba service errors out on boot. There is
a Windows 11 on a VM in this same machine.

So, it works when it works.

It shows two entries for "DT", my Synology Diskstation. The
first is the SMB share, because when I double-click on it
the authentication dialog includes a "Domain" of "WORKGROUP".

The second is either NFS or AFP, I can't tell. (The
"mount" isn't a system mount -- it uses gvfsd.)

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On 18/12/2025 in message <10i0s86$9o38$1@dont-email.me> Paul wrote:

Network neighbourhood, I don't think I've been able to get that
running in Samba.

Not complicated once I twigged that when in Linux file manager (of
whatever flavour) when trying to browse a network it puts SMB:\\\ in the
title bar, no idea why but as soon as I remember to remove the surplus "\"
it works fine :-)
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On 18/12/2025 15.54, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-12-18 15:05, vallor wrote:

At 18 Dec 2025 09:11:41 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

I ran into my Linux bete-noir in trying to connect to the Network to
copy my books over, I need a file manager that shows Windows shares
instead of torturing my poor old brain into remembering the magic
incantation :-)

Thunar has a "Network" tab that seems to work fine:

    https://ibb.co/r2ZvyfMw

On my setup it only shows one laptop, and there are two powered up since some days, plus a 24*7 miniserver with active nfs shares. None of those
are seen by Thunar.

There is also an icon for "Windows network" which does nothing when
clicked, probably because the samba service errors out on boot. There is
a Windows 11 on a VM in this same machine.

maybe you don't have gvfs-smb installed, not sure what the package may
be named in other distros
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On Thu, 12/18/2025 10:39 AM, J.O. Aho wrote:

On 18/12/2025 15.54, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-12-18 15:05, vallor wrote:

At 18 Dec 2025 09:11:41 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote: >>>

I ran into my Linux bete-noir in trying to connect to the Network to
copy my books over, I need a file manager that shows Windows shares
instead of torturing my poor old brain into remembering the magic
incantation :-)

Thunar has a "Network" tab that seems to work fine:

    https://ibb.co/r2ZvyfMw

On my setup it only shows one laptop, and there are two powered up since some days, plus a 24*7 miniserver with active nfs shares. None of those are seen by Thunar.

There is also an icon for "Windows network" which does nothing when clicked, probably because the samba service errors out on boot. There is a Windows 11 on a VM in this same machine.

maybe you don't have gvfs-smb installed, not sure what the package may be named in other distros

You'd have to check what daemons were running and see if
there is an "interesting" one or two in the collection.

smbd
nmbd
wsdd

For gvfs-smb, I see a wsdd down at the end of the extended list here.

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gvfs-smb/

Dependencies (24)
...
wsdd (make)

Maybe that is what makes the icons appear. I may have tried that
at one time, with no success.

Paul
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On 2025-12-18 18:10, Paul wrote:

On Thu, 12/18/2025 10:39 AM, J.O. Aho wrote:

On 18/12/2025 15.54, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-12-18 15:05, vallor wrote:

At 18 Dec 2025 09:11:41 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote: >>>>

I ran into my Linux bete-noir in trying to connect to the Network to >>>>> copy my books over, I need a file manager that shows Windows shares
instead of torturing my poor old brain into remembering the magic
incantation :-)

Thunar has a "Network" tab that seems to work fine:

    https://ibb.co/r2ZvyfMw

On my setup it only shows one laptop, and there are two powered up since some days, plus a 24*7 miniserver with active nfs shares. None of those are seen by Thunar.

There is also an icon for "Windows network" which does nothing when clicked, probably because the samba service errors out on boot. There is a Windows 11 on a VM in this same machine.

maybe you don't have gvfs-smb installed, not sure what the package may be named in other distros

You'd have to check what daemons were running and see if
there is an "interesting" one or two in the collection.

smbd
nmbd
wsdd

None. As I said, I have a samba error on boot that I have not investigated yet.


Having a look at it:

Telcontar:~ # systemctl status smb
× smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smb.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2025-12-17 23:09:54 CET; 19h ago
Docs: man:smbd(8)
man:samba(7)
man:smb.conf(5)
Process: 2479 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/samba/update-apparmor-samba-profile (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CPU: 77ms

Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon...
Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2479]: generating profile sniplet failed
Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon. Telcontar:~ #
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On 2025-12-18 16:39, J.O. Aho wrote:

On 18/12/2025 15.54, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-12-18 15:05, vallor wrote:

At 18 Dec 2025 09:11:41 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote: >>>

I ran into my Linux bete-noir in trying to connect to the Network to
copy my books over, I need a file manager that shows Windows shares
instead of torturing my poor old brain into remembering the magic
incantation :-)

Thunar has a "Network" tab that seems to work fine:

    https://ibb.co/r2ZvyfMw

On my setup it only shows one laptop, and there are two powered up
since some days, plus a 24*7 miniserver with active nfs shares. None
of those are seen by Thunar.

There is also an icon for "Windows network" which does nothing when
clicked, probably because the samba service errors out on boot. There
is a Windows 11 on a VM in this same machine.

maybe you don't have gvfs-smb installed, not sure what the package may
be named in other distros

Telcontar:~ # rpm -q gvfs-smb
package gvfs-smb is not installed
Telcontar:~ # opi gvfs-smb
Searching repos for: gvfs-smb
No package found.
Telcontar:~ # rpm -qa | grep gvfs
gvfs-backends-1.52.2-150600.1.6.x86_64 gvfs-backend-goa-1.52.2-150600.1.6.x86_64
gvfs-1.52.2-150600.1.6.x86_64
gvfs-backend-samba-1.52.2-150600.1.6.x86_64 <== maybe this one. gvfs-lang-1.52.2-150600.1.6.noarch
gvfs-fuse-1.52.2-150600.1.6.x86_64
gvfs-backend-afc-1.52.2-150600.1.6.x86_64
Telcontar:~ #
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On 18/12/2025 18.51, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-12-18 18:10, Paul wrote:

On Thu, 12/18/2025 10:39 AM, J.O. Aho wrote:

On 18/12/2025 15.54, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-12-18 15:05, vallor wrote:

At 18 Dec 2025 09:11:41 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:

I ran into my Linux bete-noir in trying to connect to the Network to >>>>>> copy my books over, I need a file manager that shows Windows shares >>>>>> instead of torturing my poor old brain into remembering the magic
incantation :-)

Thunar has a "Network" tab that seems to work fine:

     https://ibb.co/r2ZvyfMw

On my setup it only shows one laptop, and there are two powered up
since some days, plus a 24*7 miniserver with active nfs shares. None
of those are seen by Thunar.

There is also an icon for "Windows network" which does nothing when
clicked, probably because the samba service errors out on boot.
There is a Windows 11 on a VM in this same machine.

maybe you don't have gvfs-smb installed, not sure what the package
may be named in other distros

You'd have to check what daemons were running and see if
there is an "interesting" one or two in the collection.

    smbd
    nmbd
    wsdd

None. As I said, I have a samba error on boot that I have not
investigated yet.

None shouldn't be needed to mount remote samba shares and some DE may
even have share functionality built in so that you can share content
from your home directory...

Telcontar:~ # systemctl status smb
× smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smb.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2025-12-17 23:09:54 CET; 19h ago
       Docs: man:smbd(8)
             man:samba(7)
             man:smb.conf(5)
    Process: 2479 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/samba/update-apparmor-samba- profile (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 77ms

Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon...
Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2479]:
generating profile sniplet failed
Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Control process
exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.

I guess a missing samba configuration or a value not allowed in the configuration.
This only affect the samba shares that you try to share from your
computer with help of samba service.

If you want to know more about your service issues, I suggest try:

journalctl -u samba

or something quite similar to that.
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On 18/12/2025 18.47, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-12-18 16:39, J.O. Aho wrote:

On 18/12/2025 15.54, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-12-18 15:05, vallor wrote:

At 18 Dec 2025 09:11:41 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:

I ran into my Linux bete-noir in trying to connect to the Network to >>>>> copy my books over, I need a file manager that shows Windows shares
instead of torturing my poor old brain into remembering the magic
incantation :-)

Thunar has a "Network" tab that seems to work fine:

    https://ibb.co/r2ZvyfMw

On my setup it only shows one laptop, and there are two powered up
since some days, plus a 24*7 miniserver with active nfs shares. None
of those are seen by Thunar.

There is also an icon for "Windows network" which does nothing when
clicked, probably because the samba service errors out on boot. There
is a Windows 11 on a VM in this same machine.

maybe you don't have gvfs-smb installed, not sure what the package may
be named in other distros

Telcontar:~ # rpm -q gvfs-smb
package gvfs-smb is not installed
Telcontar:~ # opi gvfs-smb
Searching repos for: gvfs-smb
No package found.
Telcontar:~ # rpm -qa | grep gvfs
gvfs-backends-1.52.2-150600.1.6.x86_64 gvfs-backend-goa-1.52.2-150600.1.6.x86_64
gvfs-1.52.2-150600.1.6.x86_64
gvfs-backend-samba-1.52.2-150600.1.6.x86_64  <== maybe this one.

yeah, seems you have it installed.
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On 2025-12-18 22:13, J.O. Aho wrote:

On 18/12/2025 18.51, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-12-18 18:10, Paul wrote:

On Thu, 12/18/2025 10:39 AM, J.O. Aho wrote:

On 18/12/2025 15.54, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-12-18 15:05, vallor wrote:

At 18 Dec 2025 09:11:41 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> >>>>>> wrote:

I ran into my Linux bete-noir in trying to connect to the Network to >>>>>>> copy my books over, I need a file manager that shows Windows shares >>>>>>> instead of torturing my poor old brain into remembering the magic >>>>>>> incantation :-)

Thunar has a "Network" tab that seems to work fine:

     https://ibb.co/r2ZvyfMw

On my setup it only shows one laptop, and there are two powered up
since some days, plus a 24*7 miniserver with active nfs shares.
None of those are seen by Thunar.

There is also an icon for "Windows network" which does nothing when >>>>> clicked, probably because the samba service errors out on boot.
There is a Windows 11 on a VM in this same machine.

maybe you don't have gvfs-smb installed, not sure what the package
may be named in other distros

You'd have to check what daemons were running and see if
there is an "interesting" one or two in the collection.

    smbd
    nmbd
    wsdd

None. As I said, I have a samba error on boot that I have not
investigated yet.

None shouldn't be needed to mount remote samba shares and some DE may
even have share functionality built in so that you can share content
from your home directory...

Telcontar:~ # systemctl status smb
× smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon
      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smb.service; enabled;
preset: disabled)
      Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2025-12-17 23:09:54 >> CET; 19h ago
        Docs: man:smbd(8)
              man:samba(7)
              man:smb.conf(5)
     Process: 2479 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/samba/update-apparmor-
samba- profile (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
         CPU: 77ms

Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon...
Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2479]:
generating profile sniplet failed
Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Control process
exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.

I guess a missing samba configuration or a value not allowed in the configuration.
This only affect the samba shares that you try to share from your
computer with help of samba service.

If you want to know more about your service issues, I suggest try:

journalctl -u samba

or something quite similar to that.

Telcontar:~ # journalctl -u samba
-- No entries --
Telcontar:~ #

journalctl -u smb

-- Boot 9991b6bf2b3e4c3da704476cc5d7b8bd --
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon...
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2430]: generating profile sniplet failed
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.
-- Boot daaa693dfedc4bc0ad0466ecb37c91c1 --


nothing new.
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On 18 Dec 2025 15:36:18 GMT, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Not complicated once I twigged that when in Linux file manager (of
whatever flavour) when trying to browse a network it puts SMB:\\\ in the title bar, no idea why but as soon as I remember to remove the surplus "\" it works fine :-)

Ah, another case of DOSlexia -- putting “\” where you mean “/” ...
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:32:32 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

Telcontar:~ # journalctl -u samba
-- No entries --
Telcontar:~ #

journalctl -u smb

-- Boot 9991b6bf2b3e4c3da704476cc5d7b8bd --
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon...
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2430]: generating profile sniplet failed
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.
-- Boot daaa693dfedc4bc0ad0466ecb37c91c1 --

Try

journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=smbd.service _SYSTEMD_UNIT=nmbd.service
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On Thu, 12/18/2025 10:05 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On 18 Dec 2025 15:36:18 GMT, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Not complicated once I twigged that when in Linux file manager (of
whatever flavour) when trying to browse a network it puts SMB:\\\ in the
title bar, no idea why but as soon as I remember to remove the surplus "\" >> it works fine :-)

Ah, another case of DOSlexia -- putting “\” where you mean “/” ...

explorer.exe \\wallace\shared

nemo smb://wallace/shared
thunar smb://wallace/shared
nautilus smb://wallace/shared

Paul
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On 19/12/2025 in message <10i2fd9$sel5$1@dont-email.me> Lawrence
DOliveiro wrote:

On 18 Dec 2025 15:36:18 GMT, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Not complicated once I twigged that when in Linux file manager (of
whatever flavour) when trying to browse a network it puts SMB:\\\ in the >>title bar, no idea why but as soon as I remember to remove the surplus "\" >>it works fine :-)

Ah, another case of DOSlexia -- putting “\” where you mean “/” ...

Habit, but there's still three of them :-)
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The fact that there's a highway to hell and only a stairway to heaven says
a lot about anticipated traffic numbers.
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On 2025-12-19 10:00, Jeff Gaines wrote:

On 19/12/2025 in message <10i2fd9$sel5$1@dont-email.me> Lawrence
DOliveiro wrote:

On 18 Dec 2025 15:36:18 GMT, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Not complicated once I twigged that when in Linux file manager (of
whatever flavour) when trying to browse a network it puts SMB:\\\ in the >>> title bar, no idea why but as soon as I remember to remove the
surplus "\"
it works fine :-)

Ah, another case of DOSlexia -- putting “\” where you mean “/” ...

Habit, but there's still three of them :-)

Three is correct. It means the root path. It could be somewhere else.
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On 2025-12-19 04:06, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:32:32 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

Telcontar:~ # journalctl -u samba
-- No entries --
Telcontar:~ #

journalctl -u smb

-- Boot 9991b6bf2b3e4c3da704476cc5d7b8bd --
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon...
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2430]: generating profile sniplet failed
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.
-- Boot daaa693dfedc4bc0ad0466ecb37c91c1 --

Try

journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=smbd.service _SYSTEMD_UNIT=nmbd.service

Telcontar:~ # journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=smbd.service _SYSTEMD_UNIT=nmbd.service
-- No entries --
Telcontar:~ #

It is:

Telcontar:~ # journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=smb.service _SYSTEMD_UNIT=nmb.service
Sep 14 12:56:35 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2464]: generating profile sniplet failed
-- Boot d1cdc52964c7451b8d27c1f8054f6f5e --
Sep 18 14:30:36 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2440]: generating profile sniplet failed
-- Boot 31efd02cdf154fea9001f26521155b9a --
Sep 23 21:33:45 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2470]: generating profile sniplet failed
-- Boot 9991b6bf2b3e4c3da704476cc5d7b8bd --
Oct 06 14:32:21 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2430]: generating profile sniplet failed
-- Boot daaa693dfedc4bc0ad0466ecb37c91c1 --
Oct 18 15:13:42 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2467]: generating profile sniplet failed
-- Boot 5488f31d5a0640699137134734a1aea8 --
Nov 16 13:16:53 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2484]: generating profile sniplet failed
-- Boot 1f08b4e964cf4f43858fda8b696afde2 --
Dec 14 21:53:15 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2636]: generating profile sniplet failed
-- Boot ce9c0803b3204c59a014f82b13f1a537 --
Dec 14 22:02:17 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2436]: generating profile sniplet failed
-- Boot 076a95cf32724b8a94061ff633d9706d --
Dec 17 23:09:54 Telcontar update-apparmor-samba-profile[2479]: generating profile sniplet failed
Telcontar:~ #


Which is the same information. That update-apparmor-samba-profile failed, no idea why.

I asked chatgpt. It told me to run

testparm

sudo /usr/share/samba/update-apparmor-samba-profile

The first one said:

Telcontar:~ # testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
lpcfg_do_global_parameter: WARNING: The "domain logons" option is deprecated
Loaded services file OK.
Weak crypto is allowed by GnuTLS (e.g. NTLM as a compatibility fallback)

ERROR: both 'wins support = true' and 'wins server = <server list>' cannot be set in the smb.conf file. nmbd will abort with this setting.

Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE

Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions



So chatgpt told me that in here:

wins server = 192.168.6.16
wins support = No

I should remove the second line. It also advised to remove

domain logons = Yes


It later said:


Why the AppArmor message was misleading

The failure message:

generating profile sniplet failed

is not an AppArmor bug — it’s a configuration validation failure caused by Samba rejecting the config.

This is a known pain point on openSUSE.



Trying now with Thunar, I can double click on "Windows network" which shows an empty "smb:///" page. Relative progress.
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On 19/12/2025 in message <nksf1mx7q9.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Carlos E.R.
wrote:

On 2025-12-19 10:00, Jeff Gaines wrote:

On 19/12/2025 in message <10i2fd9$sel5$1@dont-email.me> Lawrence >>DOliveiro wrote:

On 18 Dec 2025 15:36:18 GMT, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Not complicated once I twigged that when in Linux file manager (of >>>>whatever flavour) when trying to browse a network it puts SMB:\\\ in the >>>>title bar, no idea why but as soon as I remember to remove the surplus >>>>"\"
it works fine :-)

Ah, another case of DOSlexia -- putting “\” where you mean “/” >>>...

Habit, but there's still three of them :-)

Three is correct. It means the root path. It could be somewhere else.

OK, that won't lead anywhere as the root path is not shared.

To get to a share it's smb://JGSERVER/DataShare
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:51:25 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

It is:

Telcontar:~ # journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=smb.service _SYSTEMD_UNIT=nmb.service

Not using a Debian derivative, then?
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On 2025-12-19 22:02, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:51:25 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

It is:

Telcontar:~ # journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=smb.service _SYSTEMD_UNIT=nmb.service

Not using a Debian derivative, then?

Nope. openSUSE Leap.
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