Thanks Michael for your input. As my own problem is already fixed, my question was in relation with the purpose of this bug report, i.e. to fix things for the future and for other users.
So here's my proposition: if we want users to have a no-fuss experience when trying to access SAMBA shares (as everyone knows, SAMBA is quite common on various NAS, etc.) that may mean that the samba package should be installed by default (so, available on installation media, or at least, be installed upon first update). From my experience, that doesn't seem to be the case right now. See the default package listing fro 12.04 - samba package is not there (while other related samba package are present): http://releases.ubuntu.com/natty/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.manifest -- 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
