Windows shares cannot be seen via 'Places >Network' in 8.04 and 8.10

[Bob Pearson]

I have 3 machines on my network of which 2 were running 7.10 Gutsy and one running Windows XP Pro. With Samba installed and configured on the Ubuntu machines it was possible using 'Places > Network' to see the shares on both the other Ubuntu and the Windows machine.

Both Ubuntu machines were then upgraded to 8.04 Hardy and since the upgrade I can only see the shares on the other Ubuntu machine with this method, I cannot see the shares on the XP machine.

However if I click 'Places' then 'Connect to Server' and enter the full share name for the Windows computer e.g. 'XPmachine/shareddocs' then enter the password for the Windows machine and click 'Connect' the Windows shares appear mounted on the desktop and I then have full read/write access. This is, however, relatively inconvenient.

I subsequently added a fourth machine to the network and installed Intrepid 8.10 on it just for test purposes and I can confirm that this machine had the same problem as the Hardy machines. Then I installed Gutsy on it again just to make sure that I could see the Windows shares via 'Places > Network', which I can.

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

Seems to be related to a browsing issue in nautilus.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, are you still seeing this issue with Jaunty?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what happens when you try listing the shares on the XP machine, do you have an error?

[Bob Pearson (admin-bpcsbromyard)]

no, I don't get any errors.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you describe what you do exactly then and what is the issue and how to trigger the bug?

[Bob Pearson (admin-bpcsbromyard)]

Hi Sebastien.

I click 'Places' in the top panel, followed by 'Network' from the dropdown menu and my 3 currently connected machines appear in the file browser window. I am working on machine 1 (Ubuntu 8.04), so I double click the icon for machine 3 (Ubuntu 8.04) and the shares on that machine appear in the browser window. If I repeat the operation but double click the icon for machine 2 (Win XP) then the rotating symbol appears briefly and then disappears again and the file browser window is blank, ie the shares on the XP machine are not displayed. If I double click the icon for my own machine the shares are displayed fine.

I can repeat this from machine 3 and the results are the same in that I can see the shares on the 2 Ubuntu machines (1 and 3), but again not the shares on the XP machine 2.

If I click 'My Network Places' on the XP machine, all shares on all 3 machines are displayed fine.

I hope that is an accurate enough description for you,

best regards,

Bob

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ok, that's a better description of the issue, do you need to enter a password to browse shares on the winxp box?

[Bob Pearson (admin-bpcsbromyard)]

If I want to browse shares on the winxp box from a Ubuntu box by the alternative method of clicking 'Places' then 'Connect to Server' and enter the full share name for the winxp box 'machine2/shareddocs' then I need to enter the password for the winxp box before clicking 'Connect'.

If I want to browse shares on the local network from the winxp box then I do not need to enter a password.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you didn't reply to the comment, does the winxp box require a login to see shares? ie would an another winxp asks you for a password there? could be bug #207072

[Bob Pearson (admin-bpcsbromyard)]

I didn't have another winxp box to try that, but I've attached one to the network now and the answer is no it doesn't.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if the candidate update on the other bug makes a difference?

[Bob Pearson (admin-bpcsbromyard)]

Yes, that seems to have fixed it.