FS#10169 - Nautilus displays blank windows when browsing SMB servers

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Marco Rocco (ech0s7) - Saturday, 12 April 2008, 12:30 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 09 May 2008, 10:27 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
When browsing to a SMB server either from the "network:///" or from the command
line (nautilus smb://SERVER/) a window opens up, the busy cursor spins for a
moment, and then stops and "0 items" is displayed.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open xterm
2. type nautilus smb://SERVER/

Actual results:
Browsing window opens, cursor spins, 0 items listed.

Expected results:
Browsing window opens, list of available shares appears.

Additional info:
GNOME nautilus 2.22.1
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Friday, 09 May 2008, 10:27 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  Upstream design issue. Hopefully solved in a future version of gvfs.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 12 April 2008, 13:32 GMT
This is because gvfs doesn't do authentication when browsing a server. When a server doesn't give an overview of shares with anonymous authentication, nautilus won't show it in the server browser. This limitation is known upstream and affects every program making use of GIO/GVFS.
Comment by Marco Rocco (ech0s7) - Saturday, 12 April 2008, 13:54 GMT
So, how i can do to surf samba server with nautilus?
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 12 April 2008, 14:05 GMT
If you know the share name, you can go straight to it using CTRL+L, smb://server/share/ and nautilus will display the contents of that share.
Comment by Marco Rocco (ech0s7) - Saturday, 12 April 2008, 14:31 GMT
Ok, this works. But with the old version, nautilus showed me in automatic all the server sharings, it's not more possible now?

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