The contents of SMB server do not appear in Nautilus main pane.

[euda]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I use Buffalo Linkstation as Samba server. I can use SMB connection with Ubuntu 8.04.
Yesterday, I updated Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10. Accordingly, Gnome and Nautilus were updated.
In the representations,
smb://< server name >/< sharing point >/< directories >,
server name and sharing point appear in left pane of Nautilus with unmount button. Also, on desktop, the icon of < server name >@< sharing point > appears. However, the right pane of Nautilus, no contents will appear including file name nor directory name.
I guess one thing about the version of Samba server. The version of Samba of said Linkstation is fairly old. Is there any missing of compatibility to old version of Samba according to upgrade of Gnome and Nautilus?
Another point I found is the status of ~/.gvfs. Without no connection, the status is,

euda@thinkpad:~$ ls -laF | grep vfs
dr-x------ 2 euda euda 0 2008-11-02 17:12 .gvfs/

Once try to connect Samba server, the status is,

$ ls -laF ~/
(snip)
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs/
(snip)
$ cd ~/.gvfs
bash: cd: /home/euda/.gvfs: Transport endpoint is not connected

is this any reason of this failure?

thanks.

Gnome: version 2.24.1, Nautilus: version 2.24.1.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, does using smbclient to browse the drive works correctly?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue could be similar to bug #282298

[euda (eiichirou)]

Sebastien, thank you for your comment.

> does using smbclient to browse the drive works correctly?

Using smbclient, it seems to be correctly working like below,

-----
euda@thinkpad:~$ smbclient //fileserver/share -U guest
Enter guest's password:
Domain=[UDA] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.8a-ja-1.1]
smb: \> ls
                                      D 0 Tue Jul 29 19:01:20 2008
  . D 0 Sun Sep 9 11:34:22 2007
  hide D 0 Mon Oct 6 18:23:02 2008
  eud D 0 Sat Nov 1 23:42:38 2008
  siteCFJ D 0 Tue Jul 22 22:02:15 2008
  TheFindByContentFolde D 0 Fri Oct 12 18:35:11 2007
  .DS_Stor AH 12292 Sun Aug 10 12:40:29 2008
  Satok D 0 Sun Oct 19 21:20:59 2008
  sca D 0 Wed Sep 24 12:51:14 2008

  37401 blocks of size 4194304. 29321 blocks available
smb: \>
-----
(file names are partially incorrectly displayed)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

does using gvfs-mount and gvfs-ls works correctly?

[euda (eiichirou)]

Sebastien, thanks again.

> does using gvfs-mount and gvfs-ls works correctly?

euda@thinkpad:~$ gvfs-mount smb://fileserver/share

(On Desktop and in left pane of Nautilus, icon "share@fileserver" appears.)

euda@thinkpad:~$ gvfs-ls smb://fileserver/share

(No response was found in terminal nor Nautilus)

Is it thought that this failure comes from previous version of Samba?

thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

reassigning to gvfs, to debug by somebody having the issue, if smbclient works correctly the issue is not likely a samba one

[Michael Devenish (mdevenish)]

I installed Robert's patched libsmbclient included in bug #282298 and I can now see all my files and folders on my buffalo linkstation (250 MB) using nautilus. I had the same issue as euda in that I could no longer see files and directories on my linkstation.

Thanks to Robert.

[euda (eiichirou)]

I also applied this patch in bug <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/282298/comments/32">#282298</a>. It works out nicely.
I am looking for fixed gvfs component from Ubuntu official repository.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in intrepid or jaunty?

[Michael Devenish (mdevenish)]

This is no longer an issue for me, using jaunty with today's updates applied, connecting to a 250 MB buffalo linkstation (samba 2.2.8a-ja-1.1).

Thanks

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing the bug since the comments state that works correctly on jaunty, you can open a new bug if you still have an issue after upgrading