Dear Zack, Thanks for taking this seriously. I've spent a few hours on it this morning and added to the bug report what I have found.
For your information I attach to this email the screenshots of what I observe. By the way, for historical reasons, our staff workgroup is given the awkward name fo27183142, not Staff. Cheers, Mark 2009/1/13 Zack Powers <[email protected]> > Testing this in Jaunty on 4:40PM EST, Jan 13th. > > When using the "Connect to Server..." dialog in Place->Connect to > Server..., Nautilus gives an error when attempting to browse a share. > > 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 used to browse the > shares? > > To see screen shots of me browsing different shares visit > http://acm.umflint.edu/~zpowers/sambaError/<http://acm.umflint.edu/%7Ezpowers/sambaError/> > > ** Attachment added: "Screenshot-Windows shares on its-ds-1 - File > Browser.png" > > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21177450/Screenshot-Windows%20shares%20on%20its-ds-1%20-%20File%20Browser.png > > -- > Nautilus fails to browse windows shares > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316862 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in "nautilus" source package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > 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 for student purposes (smb.conf > Workgroup = Students, Dapper LTS Server) > (c) one LTSP network with three terminals running Samba server for staff > purposes (smb.conf set to make Staff the workgroup) (Intrepid, latest > patches as of 13/1/09) > (d) one standalone Ubuntu Intrepid machine (smb.conf Workgroup = Staff, > Intrepid, latest patches as of 13/1/09) > (e) two Ubuntu machines running from the live CD for test purposes. (No > workgroup set) > > It's a school. There are two workgroups: Staff and Students. > > Windows (Staff) machines (a) always show the presence of the other machines > on their (Staff) workgroup. > Nautilus on (b) to (e) intermittently displays the Windows machines on the > Staff workgroup. > When Nautilus works, Places, Network on machines (c) and (d) displays the > machines on the Staff workgroup, and also the Windows Network icon, through > which you can find the Student workgroup. On machines (e), where no > workgroup is set, one has to go through the Windows Network icon to the > Staff network. > When Nautilus doesn't work, only the Windows Network icon is visible. > Clicking that makes the other Windows networks visible, but no shares on the > Staff workgroup are visible. But (b) on the Student network, is always > visible. > > BUT, Smb4K is installed on (c) and (d), and even when Nautilus is off, > using Smb4K, one can seek, browse, connect to other machines on the Staff > network. > > The two machines (d) using live CD's are there for test purposes. They > observe the same behaviour with Intrepid, Hardy, Gutsy live CDs. > > Possibly associated bugs: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/207072 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/26933 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/193232 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/282113 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/215570 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/73591 > > Thoughts: > > i) I did not observe this behaviour when using Gutsy, so thought it was a > post-Gutsy problems. But now it is clearly evident in Gutsy. That makes me > think that the problem may have arisen not through a change in Ubuntu, but > from a change in the Windows network. I did wonder if this was a consequence > of a Windows 2000 security update, possible affecting the Windows browser > service. > > ii) I noticed that that attempting to browse the Staff workgroup via > Places, Network, Windows Network, Staff results in an extremely rapid return > of '0 items', whereas when browsing the other default (empty) workgroups > (WORKGROUP, MSHOME) it takes about six seconds before '0 items' is > displayed. This means that there is something on the network that is rapidly > telling Nautilus that there is nothing there. > ** Attachment added: "SMB4K showing network, Nautilus no network evident.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21206436/SMB4K%20showing%20network%2C%20Nautilus%20no%20network%20evident.png ** Attachment added: "Double clicking Windows Network.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21206437/Double%20clicking%20Windows%20Network.png ** Attachment added: "Double clickingfo27183142.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21206438/Double%20clickingfo27183142.png -- Nautilus fails to browse windows shares https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
