Public bug reported:
I am using thunar version 1.6.10-2ubuntu1 in Xenial.
Thunar connects to SMB/CIFS shares just fine, even using current
Kerberos credentials to avoid any password prompt. That part's working
great.
However, if I enter a UNC path into the location bar like
"\\server\share\path\to\dir\", then nothing happens. I hit Enter, and
it's as if the keystroke doesn't reach the program.
That location can be loaded as "smb://server/share/path/to/dir/", but no
one writes SMB paths that way. If I get an e-mail from a co-worker
telling me to look in a certain Windows network location, it's going to
be in UNC syntax, backslashes and all. If I send him/her a smb:// path,
s/he isn't going to know what that is, let alone what to do with it.
Neither I nor my co-worker should need to manually edit the prefix and
flip all the slashes. Thunar should automatically convert a UNC path to
the smb:// form. Ideally, it would also allow an SMB share location to
be displayed using UNC syntax so that I can copy-and-paste usable
information from there into an e-mail.
** Affects: thunar (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Does not recognize Windows UNC paths
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