Comment 24 for bug 356022

Thanks Michael for your input. As my own problem is already fixed, my question was in relation with the purpose of this bug report, i.e. to fix things for the future and for other users.

So here's my proposition: if we want users to have a no-fuss experience when trying to access SAMBA shares (as everyone knows, SAMBA is quite common on various NAS, etc.) that may mean that the samba package should be installed by default (so, available on installation media, or at least, be installed upon first update). From my experience, that doesn't seem to be the case right now. See the default package listing fro 12.04 - samba package is not there (while other related samba package are present): http://releases.ubuntu.com/natty/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.manifest