Ubuntu 18.04 "Files" app unable to show Samba/SMB shares where 'access based share enumeration = yes'

[Sean McBride]

From Ubuntu 18.04's GUI, if I open the "Files" app and go to "Other Locations", I see my samba/SMB server. If I double click it, it then lists *some* of my shares. Specifically, it lists those where I didn't use Samba's 'access based share enumeration = yes'[1] (which allows some shares to be made completely invisible to some users). Note that Ubuntu has *not* yet asked me to authenticate, so it makes sense that I shouldn't yet be able to see shares I'm not entitled to.

The bug is: even after I authenticate (and let it remember my password), then go back to Other Locations>MyServer, it *still* doesn't show the other shares. In fact, I can't find *any* way to see the other shares.

Contrast this with macOS Finder. If I navigate to MyServer in the share list, it doesn't show *any* shares until I authenticate, then it shows *all* shares that the user has access to (and none of the shares the user doesn't have access to).

Ubuntu could either:
 - adopt macOS Finder behaviour and get authentication first, or
 - update the share list after authentication is performed.

Its current behaviour makes some shares totally inaccessible (the crux of the bug).

I doubt it matters, but my server is: FreeNAS 11.2-U4 (current newest) using ZFS, running samba 4.9.6. Other users on the FreeNAS forum see the same behaviour[2], so it's not particular to my setup.

[1] https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smb.conf.5.html
[2] https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/accessing-smb-shares-from-ubuntu-18-04-doesnt-show-all-shares-in-gui.75961/

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[Sean McBride (seanmcb)]

OK, I used "ubuntu-bug -w" and the package seems to be "nautilus 1:3.26.4-0~ubuntu18.04.4"

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, the issue looks like an upsream one though, maybe you could report it to them on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/issues ?

[Sean McBride (seanmcb)]

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/issues/398

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks