Nautilus ignores username when connecting to smb://username@server

[Viktors Petrovs]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Nautilus ignores username when connecting to samba server (i'm entering smb://username@server/ in the location field).
As i understand, nautilus is showing server shares without loging in (only public shares).
As a result i can't see shares visible and available for logged in users/usergroups.

[Viktors Petrovs (viks77)]

I am using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 with all updates... upgraded from Ubuntu 7.10.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

more like a gvfs issue, re assigning.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

known upstream you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520551

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Is anyone still getting that issue in recent Ubuntu versions?

[Viktors Petrovs (viks77)]

Yes. On all Ubuntu versions since 8.04.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what's the most recent version of Ubuntu you tried? what are you doing exactly? doing ctrl-L and typing "smb://user@hostname" seems to work fine there and log with "user" and the password entered

[steve.horsley (steve-horsley)]

Sebastien,

I haven't used nautilus for a couple of years now - I'm using thunar on
xubuntu. However, I do remember that I first hit the issue when I had a
folder full of shortcuts (one for each of the servers that we deal with
regularly) that launched nautilus from the command line, such as:

nautilus smb://MYDOMAIN;administrator@1.2.3.4/D$

I don't remember if they were .desktop launchers or just one-line scripts,
but I suspect they were just simple scripts. Failing to fill in the
username and domain fields in the password popup from the url defeated the
point of having different scripts for each server.

Regards,
Steve Horsley.

On 5 December 2012 11:34, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> what's the most recent version of Ubuntu you tried? what are you doing
> exactly? doing ctrl-L and typing "smb://user@hostname" seems to work
> fine there and log with "user" and the password entered
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[Viktors Petrovs (viks77)]

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10.

Server side SAMBA configuration:

I have following line in smb.conf:
include = /etc/samba/smb.conf.%U

This means that samba will include additional config files for each user like this: /etc/samba/smb.conf.username
with additional shares visible only to this user.

On client (Ubuntu 12.10):

1) First of all i delete all saved passwords using "Passwords and Keys" (seahorse) to start from clean state.
2) ctrl-L and enter smb://username@hostname

There is no password prompt dialog.
After this i see only shares configured to be visible to all users (even unauthenticated).

Of course i can enter path to share manually: smb://username@hostname/share, but this is another story.

Expected behavior:
Password prompt is displayed.
After successfull authentification all shares is visible.

[Viktors Petrovs (viks77)]

There is also special [homes] share defined in the smb.conf on server side...
so "username" share must be visible when browsing shares on server smb://username@hostname, but it's not.