DBus error when connecting to shared folders in Nautilus

[Richard]

Binary package hint: samba

If I use Nautilus to connect to a shared folder I often get a DBus errror. See attached screenshot of error. Sometimes there is no error, sometimes there is. Usually when the error comes, a second attempt to click on the shared folder gets you in. Sometimes, it is even more stubborn and needs a third attempt.

We have a couple of Laptops running Ubuntu 10.10, and we share folders via the right-click "Sharing options" menu within Nautilus. When connecting, we enter the password and tell it to remember the password for ever.

We've tried connecting using an IP address, using the name of the server, using direct addressing in the address bar "smb://server/share", and by using bookmarks. They all seem to behave the same way with erratic connection results.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: samba 2:3.5.4~dfsg-1ubuntu8.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 3 17:05:41 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions:
 nautilus 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1
 gvfs 1.6.4-0ubuntu1.1
SambaClientRegression: No
SourcePackage: samba

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Not a samba bug.

[Richard (richard-njoyscience)]

I've been testing with Nautilus and SSH and get this DBus error with SSH too. I agree with comment #3 it obviously isn't a Samba error.

What I found with the SSH bookmarks that I set up in Nautilus, was the one to the root file system of the computer on the LAN works fine, but the one to the Documents folder, or the home folder does not, UNLESS you've already established a connection to the root folder.

Could Nautilus be connecting to the root folder then changing directories to the bookmarked folder and during this time, it times out?

[Robert Hill (rhill-isu)]

Changed package to Nautilus.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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