I have been using smbclient to allow access to my NAS. This has worked well in 14.04. But around Jan 2015 it has stopped working. I get extremely slow access to Windows netowrk and then repeated request for password and no access. I know the passwords etc. are correct. But appears now that smbclient has stopped working. I am not a Linux expert, but I have succesfully used smbclient more or less since 9.04, so I do believe it is a bug. IPossibly linked, an updaye around the same time broke my HP wireless printer driver and i was forced to update that. perhaps related?

[alex]

I have been using smbclient to allow access to my NAS. This has worked well in 14.04. But around Jan 2015 it has stopped working. I get extremely slow access to Windows network and then repeated request for password and no access. I know the passwords etc. are correct. But appears now that smbclient has stopped working. I am not a Linux expert, but I have successfully used smbclient more or less since 9.04, so I do believe it is a bug. Possibly linked, an update around the same time broke my HP wireless printer driver and I was forced to update that. perhaps related?

I am on fully update 14.04 LTS

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: smbclient 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-49.81-generic 3.13.11-ckt17
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-49-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Apr 11 10:18:03 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-25 (228 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions:
 nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.7
 gvfs 1.20.1-1ubuntu1
SambaClientRegression: Yes
SourcePackage: samba
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)