firefox does not recognize network shares

[Aaron]

Binary package hint: yelp

Ubuntu 9.10, basic installation, no changes

Firefox cannot save to a network share. I successfully connect to the share through Places -> Network first to establish the connection, so it's not a general connectivity issue.

A workaround equivalent to Windows drive mapping would be acceptable, but my major apps must be able to work with my file server if I am to ever switch over.

This has been an issue in previous versions of Ubuntu as well. I have just been too distracted and busy to post them. It was the first thing I checked with the new version.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 30 15:49:51 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1374): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1430): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1451): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:1429): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -3 and height 24
 (yelp:1513): Yelp-WARNING **: Failed to load config file: No such file or directory