Ubuntu
gvfs package

cant browse windows shares on local lan [hardy]

Bug #241578 reported by kulight on 2008-06-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #207072: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gvfs (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

after last updates samba and gvfs (proposed repo's) i can no longer access windows shares on my local lan
i can see the different workgroups but when i try to browse any of them i ask for a password which is not needed
it used to work before
from my second PC running XP i have no problem accessing and browsing the shares so i know its working fine and dosent require password

i hope i gave you the information you need to solve this it very important
if you need more info tell me i'll be happy to provide it

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-06-26:

thank you for your bug report, could you describe the server configuration?

Changed in gvfs:
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Gareth Williams (gw-westdale) wrote on 2008-06-26:

I have related problem. On first install of Hardy after its release, networking was brilliant (kudos to developers) including wireless through USB port.
After recent updates, Places / Network / Windows Network shows MSHOME but selecting that shows no entries. Bookmarks I had already established still work fine and browsing to an explicit Samba address (eg smb://lacie2/share/ for one of the NAS drives) works too.
Thunderbird was sharing its mail folder on the Windows machine but now requires me to mount that folder before it can see it.
Other comments are in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5264806&posted=1#post5264806

I use linksys wireless router which runs local DHCP service and is gateway to cable modem. NAS drives are on fixed IP addresses, Printer, Ubuntu laptop, windows XP desktop and windows XP laptop are dynamic IP.

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kulight (kulight) wrote on 2008-06-26:

hi
Sebastien
by mistake i filed this one twice
this one is the same:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/242436

as for the server i dont know much:
MS server 2003

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Gareth Williams (gw-westdale) wrote on 2008-06-27:

Another oddity
Once I have managed to create a link to my NAS drive - using IP address and 'connect to server',
If I double click the desktop mounted item "share on 192.168.1.22", it opens the browser window on the share folder correctly but also creates a duplicate desktop mounted item.