Dbus error connecting to shared folders in nautilus

[Richard]

Binary package hint: nautilus

On an exclusively Ubuntu 10.x LAN, users right click on folders on their machine and share them in nautilus. Other users then attempt a connection and these shares sometimes connect, and sometimes give a DBus error. We mostly use bookmarks to these shared folders, where the bookmark is of the order "smb://server/share/" . See attached screenshot for error.

I tried setting up a WINS server to see if that would help, but it doesn't. It just seems to make things worse. Now I drill down from the WORKGROUP level, although I can by pass the WORKGROUP and drill down from the server level.

I tried using SSH and bookmarking all the folders that we need to see if that gets passed this DBus error. It doesn't. However, I did find something. If one bookmarks the server "ssh://server/" and also the shared folder as two separate bookmarks, one can link to the server, and then to the share, and the DBus error doesn't happen. If one goes directly to the bookmarked shared folder, it seems that one is prone to getting the Dbus error.

See bug 712787 for the same issue there.

Also I sympathize with Bugs 363576 and 456808.

Command line access seems to be fine, but Nautilus seems buggy on the LAN. So, regular users find LAN use annoying. Help!

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10, as most of us on the LAN are. Our "server" is a 10.4 machine.

Thanks!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: libsmbclient 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: Wed Feb 16 16:55:31 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions:
 nautilus 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1.3
 gvfs 1.6.4-0ubuntu1.1
SambaClientRegression: Yes
SourcePackage: samba

[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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