[Bug 316862] Re: Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2013-05-12 Thread Mark Ellse
I am now running both the current Luicid and Precise distributions. With neither of them am I having any browsing problems at thee moment. At the same time staff are bringing in some Win8 machines and finding that these browse the net unreliably. My experience is that Windows browsing of Windo

Re: [Bug 946472] Re: Precise unable to change wrong refresh rate

2012-03-17 Thread Mark Ellse
Hi Bryce, Two issues. The first is that the monitor has the wrong default rate. This means that the display is off to the side and bits of the screen are missing. If you know what you are doing, you can change the refresh rate directly through the terminal, but it does not stick after reboot. The

Re: [Bug 316862] Re: Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2010-08-30 Thread Mark Ellse
1. Apologies for the slow reply to this. 2. Since adding an SMEserver (www.contribs.org) to the network, the network browsing problems have disappeared. I think that this is because SMEserver acts as a WINS server by default. Adding the SME server coincided with an upgrade to Ubuntu Jaunty on our n

[Bug 505616] Re: Nautilus display of Windows Shares on network intermittent

2010-01-31 Thread Mark Ellse
Preliminary tests with Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 alpha 2 so this not to be present there, so may have been solved somewhere. -- Nautilus display of Windows Shares on network intermittent https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505616 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 505616] Re: Nautilus display of Windows Shares on network intermittent

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Ellse
Bug reported upstream. Hope I've done it right. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606723 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #606723 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606723 -- Nautilus display of Windows Shares on network intermittent https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/5056

[Bug 505616] Re: Nautilus display of Windows Shares on network intermittent

2010-01-10 Thread Mark Ellse
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37683926/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "XsessionErrors.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37683927/XsessionErrors.txt ** Attachment added: "usr_lib_nautilus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37683928/usr_lib_

[Bug 505616] [NEW] Nautilus display of Windows Shares on network intermittent

2010-01-10 Thread Mark Ellse
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus Koala, on Windows peer-to-peer network. When clicking Places, Network, initially nothing is displayed. The second (usually) or third (sometimes) time the same action is preformed, the network hosts are displayed. No problem with Jaunty, which

[Bug 354928] Re: Rhythmbox crash on create Auto Playlist

2009-12-26 Thread Mark Ellse
** Description changed: -- Rhythmbox crash on create Auto Playlist https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354928 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.

[Bug 215570] Re: Cannot browse/mount Windows Server 2003 shares

2009-12-19 Thread Mark Ellse
Recent experience with the network leads me to believe that this is, at least in part, a Windows Browser-Master problem. Windows is known to have trouble (some say it's broken) with browsing peer-to-peer networks. One computer in the network takes the role of being a browser master. There is a

[Bug 215570] Re: Cannot browse/mount Windows Server 2003 shares

2009-12-19 Thread Mark Ellse
Recent experience with the network leads me to believe that this is, at least in part, a Windows Browser-Master problem. Windows is known to have trouble (some say it's broken) with browsing peer-to-peer networks. One computer in the network takes the role of being a browser master. There is a

[Bug 316862] Re: Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2009-12-19 Thread Mark Ellse
Recent experience with the network leads me to believe that this is, at least in part, a Windows Browser-Master problem. Windows is known to have trouble (some say it's broken) with browsing peer-to-peer networks. One computer in the network takes the role of being a browser master. There is a

[Bug 316862] Re: Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2009-05-14 Thread Mark Ellse
I'm still using 8.04 and am running 9.04 on test. Doesn't work for me in either version. -- Nautilus fails to browse windows shares https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs

[Bug 316862] Re: Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2009-05-05 Thread Mark Ellse
1. The bug. When an an Ubuntu machine is connected to a Windows peer-to-peer network, the File Browser will browse network (network:///) showing the workgroups (smb:///) but it will not reliably browse within the workgroups (smb://workgroup/). 2. How to trigger in Jaunty. Connect a Jaunty machin

[Bug 316862] Re: Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2009-05-03 Thread Mark Ellse
The behaviour is still there, and very disabling, with Jaunty, and with latest patches on Intrepid. The behaviour is intermittent, but most of the time Nautilus is unable to browse Samba shares. Occasionally the Samba shares are browseable. Agreed that browsing a Windows peer to peer network wit

[Bug 316862] Re: Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2009-03-08 Thread Mark Ellse
Workaround and associated faulty behaviour: 1. You can log onto a Windows share by typing smb://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (the IP address of the machine which has the Windows share) in the text based location bar. 2. While connected to the share as in 1, create a bookmark for the share Ctrl+D. This creat

[Bug 316862] Re: Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2009-01-22 Thread Mark Ellse
Agreed. Where should I post it? -- Nautilus fails to browse windows shares https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [Bug 316862] Re: Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2009-01-14 Thread Mark Ellse
When opening Nautilus and using the "Network" shortcut to browse the > network root, browsing various shares and workgroups work fine. > > When pasting smb:// URLs into the nautilus address bar browsing also > works fine. > > Mark Ellse, could you clarify which method you use

[Bug 316862] Re: Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2009-01-14 Thread Mark Ellse
Can't use Jaunty - flaky with my hardware. Am using Intrepid on live CD (same behaviour with Hardy) and Intrepid on two installed machines, one of which is an LTSP server. These have latest updates. On live CD machines I connect by clicking Places, Network, then double- clicking Windows Network, S

[Bug 26933] Re: Browsing SAMBA shares impossible

2009-01-13 Thread Mark Ellse
Please see the bug below showing similar behaviour on Intrepid, together with some steps to isolate the problem. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/316862 -- Browsing SAMBA shares impossible https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26933 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 193232] Re: Remote Samba shares not showing up in Nautilus through network:///

2009-01-13 Thread Mark Ellse
Please see the bug below showing similar behaviour on Intrepid, together with some steps to isolate the problem. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/316862 -- Remote Samba shares not showing up in Nautilus through network:/// https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193232 You receive

[Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2009-01-13 Thread Mark Ellse
Please see the bug below showing similar behaviour on Intrepid, together with some steps to isolate the problem. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/316862 -- nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207072 You

[Bug 215570] Re: Cannot browse/mount Windows Server 2003 shares

2009-01-13 Thread Mark Ellse
Please see the bug below showing similar behaviour on Intrepid, together with some steps to isolate the problem. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/316862 -- Cannot browse/mount Windows Server 2003 shares https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215570 You received this bug notificat

[Bug 316862] [NEW] Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2009-01-13 Thread Mark Ellse
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus Forgive long explanation below detailing, as well as the range of the problem, some experiments to isolate the problem. Windows peer-to-peer network with (a) about twenty Windows 2000 and 98 machines (b) one Ubuntu machine running Samba server