Local network barriers after update to version 2.24.6 on Ubuntu

[Bhairavi 1]

Hello everyone,

I've been using the Eddie GUI for several years without any flaws. Recently, I added its repository to my Xubuntu 25.04 system and updated from version 2.21 to 2.24.6. The GUI has since become somewhat lagging, taking several seconds to proceed a simple mouse click. 

More annoyingly, version 2.24.6 interferes with some local network settings. I have a QNAP HS-264 NAS set up for access through Thunar (XFCE's file manager) via the samba protocol. Since the update, that access is halted after launching Eddie – not immediately, but within half an hour or so. I can still connect to the NAS on my internet browser, but since Eddie was the only package update I did before the problem appeared, there must be some newish inbuilt override that blocks samba.

Could somebody kindly point me to a solution? I'm a Linux noob and would appreciate any help.

Kind regards,
B.


Update: As it turned out, the installation of 2.24.6 enforced a new setting, "Ensure in session", for the network lock, even though I already had the lock deactivated in the main window. After unticking said box in the advanced settings, samba protocols are working again (even though "Allow lan/private" had been checked, but there seem to be several reports in this forum that this often doesn't solve the local network barriers.)
So this was the override I was looking for, and admittingly, it's a bit confusing that there's two entirely seperate, unsynced selections for the same locking function.
That only leaves the generally laggy GUI reponse as a minor issue which the mods/developers might consider looking into. I can't pinpoint it for certain, but I believe that the server latencies on display are also at least 10-15ms higher than before my 2.24.6 update, which might be due to the same decelerating problems.

Edited ... by Bhairavi