Nautilus sometimes won't establish connection to windows share

[Richard]

Binary package hint: gvfs

I find Nautilus erratic in it's ability to connect to windows shares on our lan. Sometimes you get a connection, sometimes not. Once connected, you're OK. Sometimes when this bug manifests, you get a DBus error message, then you ignore that, and try again, and you get connected. Other days, it works first time. See attached error.

How the connection is made.. you get a connection to the share and you bookmark it. A few days later you try and use the bookmark and you get this iffy behavior. Sometimes I've tried CTRL to open up the address bar and then typed in the share name i.e. "smb://server/share". It gives the same error.

We have 4 laptops running Ubuntu 10.10 on a lan in workgroup WORKGROUP and we all seem to suffer from this intermittent error.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gvfs 1.6.4-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 2 07:14:18 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gvfs

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marcello Romani (marcello-romani)]

I see this behaviour on one of our 10.04.4 x86 clients. The share is located on a windows 2000 ad controller. The bug shows itself when single-clicking on the windows share bookmark.

Sometimes just waiting a few seconds and then clicking again on the bookmark makes the connection work.

Other times there's no way of connecting to the share by using the bookmark. On those days the only way is using the File => Connect to server dialog box, which always works.

So far this bug seems to affect only our single x86 10.04.4 client machine. All other client machines that connect to the same windows 2000 share are 10.04.4 x64, and none of the shows the bug.