can't list smb shares

[Nicolò Chieffo]

Binary package hint: gvfs

I'd like to browse (from nautilus) smb shares.

So what I do is:
- click places->network
- wait 20-30 seconds (only the first time)
- open "Windows Networks"
- open "Workgroup"
- wait 20-30 seconds

the error message is: Unable to mount location Failed to retrieve share list from server

I have a vista share configured in this way:
wireless network set to "home network"
network discovery = on
file sharing = on
public folder sharing = on
printer sharing = off
password protected sharing = off
media sharing = off

I can access directly the share by opening smb://192.168.5.4 without problems.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 1 22:31:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: gvfs 1.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gvfs
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Of course from other windows installation I can list shares in less
than 1 second

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Can you list those shares using smbclient?

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

can you help me on using smbclient?
I only know smbclient //192.168.5.4 but not a way to list all shares detected.
Thanks

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you can use "smbclient -L <hostname>", you might need to use -U <user> too

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

the problems is not that I can't see shares in hosts, it's that I
don't see anything in the nautilus network backend that lists all smb
hosts.

smbtree:
WORKGROUP
 \\VBOX-CHIEVO
cli_start_connection: failed to connect to VBOX-CHIEVO<20> (0.0.0.0).
Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
 \\PORTATILE-HP-BA
cli_start_connection: failed to connect to PORTATILE-HP-BA<20>
(0.0.0.0). Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL

smbclient -L works only if I use the IP address, and fails with the
same error if I use the smb name

smbclient -L PORTATILE-HP-BA
Connection to PORTATILE-HP-BA failed (Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL)

smbclient -L 192.168.5.4
Domain=[PORTATILE-HP-BA] OS=[Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium 6002
Service Pack 2] Server=[Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium 6.0]

 Sharename Type Comment
 --------- ---- -------
 ADMIN$ Disk Amministrazione remota
 C$ Disk Condivisione predefinita
 D$ Disk Condivisione predefinita
 IPC$ IPC IPC remoto
 Public Disk
session request to 192.168.5.4 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)
NetBIOS over TCP disabled -- no workgroup available

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

That seems to be a problem in samba, not in gvfs

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: samba-common 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I manually compiled samba 3.4.3 and there is the same problem.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Are you using opendns?

chuck

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

No I don't. My nameservers are 193.70.152.15 193.70.152.25

And nmblookup can easily find the ip

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I've found a workaround to fix the smbtree problem

edit /etc/samba/smb.conf

find the line

; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

and change to

name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast host

nautilus still can't list the shares, but maybe that's because I need to reboot

[callMeTom (almighty-spork)]

Seems it has something to do with the way Linux uses DNS versus the way Windows uses DNS, and having some DNSes (I'm using open DNS, Comcast's also, apparently, have an issue) try changing to Google's DNS 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 - Worked for me and many others.