Does not recognize Windows UNC paths

[Daniel Richard G.]

I am using thunar version 1.6.10-2ubuntu1 in Xenial.

Thunar connects to SMB/CIFS shares just fine, even using current Kerberos credentials to avoid any password prompt. That part's working great.

However, if I enter a UNC path into the location bar like "\\server\share\path\to\dir\", then nothing happens. I hit Enter, and it's as if the keystroke doesn't reach the program.

That location can be loaded as "smb://server/share/path/to/dir/", but no one writes SMB paths that way. If I get an e-mail from a co-worker telling me to look in a certain Windows network location, it's going to be in UNC syntax, backslashes and all. If I send him/her a smb:// path, s/he isn't going to know what that is, let alone what to do with it.

Neither I nor my co-worker should need to manually edit the prefix and flip all the slashes. Thunar should automatically convert a UNC path to the smb:// form. Ideally, it would also allow an SMB share location to be displayed using UNC syntax so that I can copy-and-paste usable information from there into an e-mail.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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