Creating a GUI shortcut to a Samba share, password dialog never appears, PID's stuck in process list

[Michael Lueck]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Recent daily releases of Lucid, starting around the Alpha 3 release, I am unable to connect to a Samba share via the GUI / Nautilus method.

The initial screen seems to work properly, I fill in:

server
share
user
domain

and click "connect".

What should come next is a password dialog, with radio buttons for how long the password should be remembered for. No further dialog comes up.

I see processes in "ps aux" which appear to be stuck processes, suggesting the program is thinking about asking the password question, just never does.

userid 1472 0.5 2.2 34680 11232 ? S 15:17 0:00 nautilus-connect-server
userid 1475 98.3 0.7 23644 4000 ? Sl 15:17 0:25 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-smb --spawner :1.6 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/2

This is a show-stopper of a bug!

[Jon Packard (jonpackard)]

An update within the last 24 hours seems to have fixed this on my Lucid machine.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

could you confirm that this is also fixed for you Michael ? Thanks.

[Michael Lueck (mlueck)]

Working on it. My main Lucid VM session somehow lost the NIC driver. I was thinking to pull down an updated daily in order to properly retest. I will start the pull now of the ISO... "no fooling".

[Michael Lueck (mlueck)]

Oh wow... the window controls are back to the top/right corner where they should be. Wow! Wow! Wow! :-) Thank you, Ubuntu!

And yes, this Samba connection via the GUI interface issue is confirmed resolved. Thank you for getting this nasty trouble taken care of.

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