Nautilus does not work with SMB Samba shares

[Adam Horvath]

Ubuntu 12.04
Confirmed on 2 machines.

Server: Apple Time Capsule, fw 7.6.1

The Time Capsule is listed by twice by name in the browse network (one for AFP and I guess the other one is SMB). When connecting to the AFP share, it asks for the u/p then lists the shares.
When clicking the SMB part, it shows empty list, like there were no shares (does NOT ask for password).

When connecting manually to the IP address of the Time Machine (smb://10.0.0.1), it will keep asking for the password, saying auth is unsuccessful. When connecting to a specific share by IP (smb://10.0.0.1/Data), it lists the entries correctly but cannot copy directories, only files from it (eg: there is a directory called DIR and there is a file called DIR/a.jpg. When entering the directory, a.jpg can be selected/copied, but the whole DIR cannot. When copying the DIR, it will create a FILE called DIR instead of a directory on the target then abort the copy).

Manually mounting the share from command line works perfectly.

The problem is exactly as described here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2035967
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ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
GsettingsChanges:
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '723x549+299+24'
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state start-with-status-bar true
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
Package: nautilus 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Tags: precise running-unity
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-08-08 (11 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom debian-tor dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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[Adam Horvath (f92x)]

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[Adam Horvath (f92x)]

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[Adam Horvath (f92x)]

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[Adam Horvath (f92x)]

Hmm.... can someone explain in a short sentence how a bug in the very core feature of a UI system affecting many people can be categorized as low? Or accessing SMB fileshares is not something of a user interest? (and no, it's not just time capsule: the other guy on Ubuntuforums having the same problem with his normal shares...)
Or if can be done from console it's not really a bug?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> affecting many people

you are the first to report that issue, it works here, how do you determine the "many" there?

> can be categorized as low

that's just a bug setting, it could be High it wouldn't make the slightest difference to how it's handled and when it will be worked, we just default to "Low" for non-data-loose-nor-security-issues bugs until they are confirmed to affect a number of users, at which point the settings as raised as appropriate ... you are the first one in 3 months of LTS to report that issue and we have smb confirmed to work by several people on several setups, whatever you define as "many" is a relative number, still a bug though and would be nice to fix but if you look at the bug number the current bugs count on launchpad is over a million and every single issue can't be investagated, we don't have the manpower for that

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom)]

Affects me as well. 14.04.

[Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom)]

When copying the DIR, it will create a FILE called DIR instead of a directory on the target then abort the copy. Screenshot of the error attached. Error message says "It is directory".

[adasiko (adasiko256)]

Confirmed on ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04
I can'not mount folder on time capsule using nautilus without treminal.

sudo mount -t cifs -o user=myUser,password=myPassword,rw,hard,nosetuids,noperm,sec=ntlm //10.0.1.1/Data ~/TimeCapsule

[Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom)]

This issie is fixed in utopic (14.10). At least it works with samba from OS X 10.10.

[Adam Horvath (f92x)]

@Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom)
What does it have to do with OS X? This bug affects Ubuntu Nautilus connecting to Time Capsule - no OSX involved at all.

[Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom)]

@f92x have you tried utopic or vivid?

This bug was affecting access to both OS X and Time Capsule because of Apple's implementation of samba. And it was fixed for OS X at least. I can't test with TC because I don't have it, but I believe it should be fixed for TC as well.