Nautilus doesn't automatically remount a network share when a clicking a symlink pointing to the share via .gvfs

[Henri Sivonen]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Karmic on x86_64.

Steps to reproduce:
 1) Mount a samba share using Connect to Server... in the Places menu.
 2) Tell the system to remember the credentials for the share.
 3) Make a symlink from the home directory to a directory on the samba share so that the symlink points to ~/.gvfs/sharename on host/directory
 4) Shut down the computer but not the samba server.
 5) Reboot.
 6) Double-click the symlink in Nautilus.

Expected results:
Expected Nautilus to use the share name and host baked into the ~/.gvfs path and the credentials saved to the keyring to remount the share and then open the directory pointed to by the symlink.

Actual results:
The symlink is treated as broken.

Additional information:
This is a feature parity bug compared to Mac OS X. Finder on Mac OS X remounts an AFP share automatically when the user tries to open an alias that points to a folder on an AFP share that isn't mounted currently.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 6 15:07:40 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

[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)

[Alexandre Magno (alexandre-mbm)]

Nautilus should automatically mount if it is a partition?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's still an issue, reported upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/875 now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

It's rather a job for gvfs according to upstream, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/issues/160