Comment 34 for bug 1782984

Hi Ben,
Recently I had problem with Samba share, but with a little workaround I managed to solve the problem.
Since Samba is also modified in Ubuntu 18.04 it is needed to look for your problem. Using Caja I have no problem like I had with PcManFM, but no mention it is a deeper problem because Thunar freezes also with Lubuntu 18.04.

Just for a try I share my Samba workaround with you, maybe you will find something different between your and my packages or configuration.

Let us see:

The way I installed Samba for enable and handle sharing is:
sudo apt-get install libgnomevfs2-extra samba-common samba-common-bin winbind libpam-winbind libnss-winbind libgnomevfs2-bin fam gnome-mime-data samba python-glade2 system-config-samba smbclient cifs-utils heimdal-clients

then after making my network seetings (Host name, Workgroup) ...
edit /etc/samba/smb.conf

and go to the Global Settings section
(under global these two new lines enables file manager to see and browse Samba shares, the line at the bottom "client max protocol = NT1" sets the protocol as it worked well in lubuntu 16.04 ).
So make the following modifications like this below:

#======================= Global Settings =======================
[global]

client use spnego = no
client NTLMv2 auth = no

## Browsing/Identification ###
# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
   workgroup = WORKGROUP
   client max protocol = NT1

Save the file,
Then give this another try with Caja! ...and of course don't forget to write your experiences :)
It works for me like a charm.
Formerly I used package GAMIN (which caused problems) instead of FAM. Since using FAM there is no problem.

For me PcManFM and Thunar freeze even when accessing local files, caja seems to solve the problem so far. However PcManFM is faster, better, etc... but since it freezes, I am not brave enough to handle my files with it.

Ps: and an other great plugin for caja is caja-rename which gives caja a really powerful bulk renaming function.
sudo apt install caja-rename

Regards,
Janos