nautilus can't browse nfs shares

[Mark]

It is very frustrating to be forced to drop to the cli in order to browse and mount nfs shares. There should be a way to do this in nautilus or from the System admin menu somehow.

Mounting remote shares, both samba and nfs, should not be a command line task. There should be an easy way to browse to all shares, right click and select mount. The applet should ask for what dir and the dir should be made and mounted. The fstab should be updated with the new info and the mount made permanent on boot.

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

What version of Ubuntu are you using? I can browse nfs shares easily with Hardy.

[Mark (nix4me)]

May I ask how you are "browsing" NFS shares? There is no applet to do so, there is no way to enter NFS:// into the nautilus bar, and there is no choice for NFS under the Places -> Connect to.

So how are you browsing without first mounting manually?

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

I'm sorry, I was talking about samba. I meant that it got much easier in Hardy to share folders with it.

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

could you please mention the ubuntu version used and if it is usable now with hardy and if not, what should be done (in what package) to improve the situation...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Botond Szász (boteeka)]

Just weighing in to say that other Linux based systems like Openelec (even on the Raspberry Pi) has this capability to discover and browse NFS shares on the same network. And not just NFS but SMB and AFP as well.

In the light of this it seems like a big thing for Ubuntu to be missing out on this. This is something people could be using on a daily basis and it lacks the Just Works factor. Even worse, it has the it Just Doesn't Work No Matter What factor, which kind of sucks, given all the building blocks are already there (because it's possible to do it from the CLI and with some config file editing).

Imagine cheap network attached storage drives like the WD MyBook Live. NFS is great on it, SMB is load of crap and slow as hell. Even AFP is faster when used from an RaspberryPi with Openelec.

Just my thoughts.