Comment 58 for bug 1828107

For what it's worth, I *think* I have the same bug. Recently set up a home server with vanilla Ubuntu 23.10, up to date, using Samba (currently samba:amd64 2:4.18.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.1). To access the shares from Windows 10 machines, for some reason I had to activate CIFS/SMB1.0 client functionality. On Ubuntu machines, also running up-to-date Ubuntu 23.10, Nautilus wants me to log into the server (before listing the shares, even if guest login is enabled on Samba) but fails anyway, not displaying shares.

I for one am glad I found @bloodyiron's workaround (killall gvfsd-smb-browse) -- it does fix the issue, the shares instantly become visible and accessible with guest/anonymous login. My previous workaround was to ctrl-L to access the address bar and use smb://path_to_server/share to access the shares using a GUI.

I get that the bug is originating from upstream. But on the other hand, in my case, I set up Samba shares from the most recent Ubuntu release, and cannot access it by default, using the default file browser of another up-to-date Ubuntu install. I would have thought that this would be a common use case, and hence rather important to fix one way or the other.