"Connect to Server..." dialog in hardy fail to connect to Windows share

[Etienne Goyer]

Binary package hint: nautilus

The Places > Connect to Server... dialog in Ubuntu 8.04 do not work to connect to Windows share. There are multiple failure, and its behavior is extremely confusing. This worked without any problem on Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) using the same server and same credentials.

The share we are trying to connect to is hosted on a Windows Small Business Server 2003 server.

 - Local username: ubuntu
 - Remote username: ubuntu
 - Windows server name: win2003
 - Windows domain name: canonical (it is an Active Directory)
 - Share name we connect to: clients

To be sure this is not a problem that have been fixed in an upcoming update already, I installed the following package from hardy-proposed:

nautilus 2.22.3-0ubuntu1
gvfs, gvfs-backends and libgvfscommon0 0.2.4-0ubuntu1

== Steps to reproduce ==

1. Go to Places > Connect to Server..., choose "Windows Share" in Service Type, fill in "Server", "Share", "Username" and "Domain Name" appropriately with the value above, click the Connect button (see Screenshot-1.png)

2. "Enter Password" dialog is shown. Provide password and then click Connect (see Screenshot-2.png)

3. An error message is displayed: 'Can't display location "smb://win2003/clients" -- The specificed location is not mounted'. However, the shortcut icon appear on the desktop nonetheless (see Screenshot-3.png). Click Ok to dismiss.

4. Double-click the shortcut icon titled "clients on win2003" on the desktop. The "Enter Password" dialog is displayed again, this time with a wrong value for Domain (see Screenshot-4.png). Change Domain from "MSHOME" to "canonical", provide password and click Connect.

5. The content of the share is displayed as expected, but a second shortcut icon appear on the desktop, with the same name (see Screenshot-5.png).

== Problems ==

1. Confusing "Can't display location "smb://win2003/clients" -- The specified location is not mounted" message, even tough a shortcut icon for the share appear on the desktop.

2. "Enter Password" dialog is displayed twice: once after filling the info in Place > Connect to Server, and then again when trying to open the share from the shortcut icon on the desktop.

3. The "Enter Password" have wrong value for Domain the second time it is shown. It should display the value entered originally.

4. When the correct domain and password are provided in the second "Enter Password" dialog, a second shortcut to the share appear on the desktop with the same name.

[BrianDrab (briand-kaplantrucking)]

I just found that if you put in only the Server name and Share and nothing else and click Connect you will be prompted for your username, domain and password. If you put this information in and click Connect it works. Obviously not the solution albeit a workaround.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

seems similar to bug #216104

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

it's the same, marking it as duplicate, thanks.