Browse networks shows afp mounts but can't mount them

[Rachel Greenham]

When using Nautilus to browse network, you can see available volumes on the various machines on the local net. Advertised afp volumes shared out by macs or linux hosts using netatalk show up in this window, but trying to mount them just gets you an error dialog: 'Could not display "afp://<hostname>:548/". The file is of an unknown type'.

To my knowledge there isn't a client-side implementation of afp on Linux, so there seems little point in displaying advertised afp volumes.

Alternatively, if there is a client-side afp for Linux - whether as a classic mountable filesystem or via gvfs - that the user doesn't know about, there should be a prompt to install the necessary components and enable it. :-) This would, of course, be ideal, but I really don't think there is a netatalk-client is there? :-)

But the current practice of showing completely unmountable volumes just clutters the network browser - especially given, in my case, the same hosts are sharing out and advertising sftp as well and those *are* mountable, but there doesn't seem to be a way of identifying which of the two volumes for a host is the afp one and which is the sftp one until you actually try to mount it.

This only turned up after upgrading to Oneiric beta, so I presume a decision was made somewhere along the way to display such volumes as mountable. But surely that only works if they actually are? :-)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.1.90-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 10 16:01:45 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-05 (5 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, is that still an issue? the afp backend was not correctly installed at some point but that got fixed before oneiric

[Rachel Greenham (rachel-strangenoises)]

Confirmed; since late beta sometime I noticed it was actually working. Some usability and reliability issues remain but outside scope of this big, so let's close it.

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On 19 Oct 2011, at 19:56, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> thank you for your bug report, is that still an issue? the afp backend
> was not correctly installed at some point but that got fixed before
> oneiric
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for the update, closing the bug