Package: gvfs-bin Version: 1.22.2-1 Severity: important I cannot access samba shares which do not require a password. The problem was discovered using pcmanfm (LXDE desktop) as well as with caja (MATE desktop). Both programs probably use gvfs-mount to mount samba shares. To confirm, I tried gvfs-mount in a terminal window: gvfs-mount smb://servername/sharename gvfs-mount asks for user, domain and password. Entering an empty password is impossible. gvfs-mount asks again. To make sure that this is not a samba problem, I tried to mount the samba share with "mount": sudo mount -t cifs //servername/sharename /mnt -o username=markus,password="" This works without a problem. It is just not useful. Users want to use the builtin funtionality of their file managers.
-- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gvfs-bin depends on: ii gvfs-common 1.22.2-1 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u6 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1+b1 gvfs-bin recommends no packages. Versions of packages gvfs-bin suggests: ii gvfs 1.22.2-1 -- no debconf information