I'm on Precise 12.04 and was somewhat experiencing the same issue, i.e getting the "failed to retrieve shares list from server" when trying to reach SAMBA shares on my NAS (WD MyBook World Edition).
I've read and try a lot of things on this issue (among others, rearranging the order of the "name resolve" string in smb.conf), but nothing worked. Even the smbtree command was unsuccessful, as it was not retrieving any shares list. But, I was able to connect to a share by issuing the nautilus smb:// command. A the end of the day, the only thing that solved all this was to install the samba package, which was not installed by default. Since then, retrieving and connecting SAMBA shares through Nautilus work without a glitch. Shouldn't the SAMBA package be installed by default then? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356022 Title: unable to mount or browse samba networks Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: nautilus this is happening on my i386 notebook and my amd64 desktop I can mount samba shares with # mount -t cifs //192.168.1.100/Music /media/Music and navigate them with nautilus but if use the network:// option in nautilus i get a list of samba shares but when i try to use one of them i get a " Failed to retrieve share list from server" error on both machines I can't even mount shares on the machine it self ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal Package: nautilus 1:2.26.1-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/356022/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
