Nautilus doesn't open folders on desktop "Failed to execute child process “net” (No such file or directory)"

Question

I installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 on my computer (by the way I hate Windows with a passion and I'm so happy I found Linux. Never going back to Windows.)

From the beginning nautilus never worked. Being new at this I thought that it was the way Linux worked. I was trying to open folders on my desktop and nothing happened. The only way to open folders was to open by "files".

How can I fix this issue? I tried reinstalling nautilus but I always get this error message

Nautilus-Share-Message: 11:23:25.561: Called "net usershare info" but it failed:
Failed to execute child process “net” (No such file or directory)

Answer 1

The only way to open folders was to open by "files"

means that you can open nautilus.

The following screenshot shows that when you look for nau[tilus] in Activities, you will find Files.