Ubuntu
nautilus package

"File not found" on attempt to browse windows shares

Bug #1368149 reported by Denis Washington
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
Expired
Low
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Bug Description

On a freshly installed Ubuntu 14.04.1:

* Open Nautilus
* Choose "Browse Network" in the sidebar
* Double-click on "Windows Network"

Instead of displaying computers in the network, Nautilus reproducibably displays the following error message (guessing a bit because I am using the German version):

"Failed to retrieve share list from server: File or directory not found"

This happens on both my Ubuntu laptop and desktop PC, every time.

Tags: trusty
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Denis Washington (dwashington) wrote :

Running Nautilus from the terminal while doing the above steps yields the following error message:

Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Do you still get that issue in newer versions?

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for nautilus (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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