Ubuntu 18.04 mounted network shares not appearing under devices in file manager

[Philip Roche]

Apologies if this is not the correct package to file this bug/regression against.

On my 18.04 desktop installs (Gnome shell and Ubuntu Mate) when mounting network shares (SMB and NFS) they no longer appear under Devices in file manager (Nautilus or Caja), the mounts do succeed and are accessible at their mount points.

In 16.04 and 17.10 these mounts appeared under Devices (Screenshot of mounted network shares on Ubuntu Mate 17.10 attached)

I am using the following code to mount NFS shares

`sudo mount.nfs 192.168.2.123:/mnt/freenas-data1/photobackup /media/philroche/photobackup`

and for SMB shares

`sudo mount.cifs //192.168.2.123/photobackup /media/philroche/photobackup`

Is this a bug/regression, or perhaps it is an intentional change?

I did ask this on IRC in #ubuntu and askubuntu.com but no reply.

Expected behaviour:

I expected the mounted network shares to appear under Devices in File manager

Actual behaviour:

Mounting network shares does succeed as expected but does not appear under Devices in File manager as it did in previous releases.

Requested details:

Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
udisks2:
  Installed: 2.7.6-3
  Candidate: 2.7.6-3
  Version table:
 *** 2.7.6-3 500
        500 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Philip Roche (philroche)]

I also refer you to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/commit/0d69462 which seems to be the cause.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/312 refers to this too but I have experienced this in Caja too, not just nautilus.

[Philip Roche (philroche)]

Given https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/commit/0d69462 referred to above it does look like an intentional change and nothing to do with udisks2. Please close if this is the case.

[d a i s y (daisyd)]

Philip Roche

I have the same issue.

Issue is resolved once I added entry into /etc/fstab.

//ip_add/ShareFolder /media/BACKUP/ cifs credentials=/home/username/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,gid=1000,uid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,vers=1.0,sec=ntlm 0 0

Here .smbcredentials is a credential file created in home directory with content:
username=domainusername
password=Password

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Reported upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1424

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

I have patched glib to fix this. Could you try the version in my PPA and verify that it works?

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

We will get this fix as part of the next stable updated.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue was fixed in cosmic and the fix was part of that SRU update to bionic
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/2.56.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1