Network browser only shows hostname, not share type / protocol

[Brian J. Cohen]

Binary package hint: nautilus

The network browser in Nautilus will adequately locate the available shares on your local network. However, it displays each one with a generic "server on the network" icon, along with the hostname that the share resides on. This is problematic if a single host has multiple services enabled.

In the screenshot I have uploaded, you can see my default Network view, which shows 4 available shares, all located on the same host ("sluice"). By double-clicking on each, I was able to determine that:

- the first "sluice" is SFTP
- the second "sluice" is also SFTP. Why is this shown twice?
- the third "sluice" is FTP
- the fourth "SLUICE" is SMB, although there are no actual shares available.

I consider this a moderate to severe usability annoyance that should be corrected before the next release.

[Brian J. Cohen (brianjcohen)]

In case it wasn't clear from the original comment, the bug/annoyance I am reporting is that unless you actually double-click on one of these identically-named shares, you have no way of knowing HOW each share is attached (sftp, ftp, smb, etc). And because different resources are often made available over different protocols, this information is as important as the hostname itself when the user is trying to locate data (which is the whole point of connecting to the network).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of GVFS is available in both Lucid and Maverick and we are wondering if this is still reproducible in any of those versions, May you please test and give us of feedback about it? Thanks in advance.

[Brian J. Cohen (brianjcohen)]

Pedro,

The problem still exists for me. I am running Lucid, and I believe I'm running gvfs 1.6.1-0ubuntu1build1.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.