List of network servers is not updated
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Nautilus |
New
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Medium
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acpi-support (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
When I restart my computers running Hardy Heron after hibernation or stand-by and select Places -> Network, I get a list of computers that was the current list when I last time rebooted the computer (I believe). It's at least not the list of computers currently on-line and it doesn't get update between reboots.
When I browse my way through Windows Network -> Home (my workgroup) -> Computer X, I often get a blank window at first on all levels in the folder hierarchy. I have to try 2 - 4 times before I see the content of the next level. The same behavior is repeated all the way down to the windows showing the shares on a particular computer in the Windows workgroup. The computers in the Windows workgroup are a mix of Windows XP and Hardy Heron. No difference in behavior.
The list of computers in the Windows workgroup seems to be a more current (but not always entirely current, see below) list of computers on-line and is usually thus not the same as the list of computers in the top level Network (Severs) window.
Opening the Windows workgroup computers from a Windows XP machine does not require several tries to open the next level, regardless of if the computer runs Ubuntu or Windows.
When I suspend an Ubuntu computer, the list of computers in the Workgroup folder is updated only after about 10 minutes in either Ubuntu or Windows and the update only shows when I reopen the window. Maybe a feature of the Windows workgroup implementation?
In conclusion, there are three perspectives on this issue:
#1: The list of servers in the Network window / view is not updated as servers are added and others are taken off-line. If this is the intended behavior then let me suggest that it is confusing and not very helpful.
#2: The same window / view is called "Network" under the Places menu but "Network Servers" in the Places left navigation bar of the file browser. As it looks now, a third name, "Networks and Network Servers", would perhaps be more appropriate as it is a mix of both types of objects. I would be quite happy with "Networks" (in plural) and I would prefer not to see (an outdated) list of servers on this level. What is the intention?
#3: It often takes several tries on each level to drill down to the shared folders in the computers in the Windows workgroup. Eventually they seem to turn up but the behavior is not pretty. Again, this is after waking up from hibernation or stand-by. Once I've accessed all computers in the workgroup, they don't go away.
I have the same behavior on two computers with very different hardware configurations, one wired and one wireless, both running Hardy Heron. Both have the latest updates.
What I expect to happen is that I in the top-level Network (again, I'd prefer "Networks", in plural) window only see networks and no servers. When drilling down into the potentially several networks, I expect to see an updated list of servers that are all on-line when the Windows workgroup window is opened. And I expect this list be updated immediately when something happens on the network.
Thanks,
Arto Jarvinen, Vreta kloster, Sweden
(Sorry about the attachment. It doesn't provide much value. I thought I could include three images but I don't find a way to do that. Neither don't I seem to be able to delete the attachment already attached.)
Changed in acpi-support (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in nautilus: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Not sure if this is related but sometimes when I try to open a share, I either get the message
Couldn't display "smb:// solbacka/ www."
Error: Invalid argument
Please select another viewer and try again
The next type i try, gedit opens with the error message:
smb://solbacka/www is a directory. Please check that you typed the location correctly and try again.
Now, if I right-click on the folder and explicitly open it with the File Browser, then it opens up as it should. It seems that the file system doesn't recognize the object type of the folder properly.
At the fourth try, it opens up properly just with a double-click as it should.
/Arto