Bug 75437

Summary:	Nautilus cannot display SMB shares
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ted Clark <bison>
Component:	nautilus	Assignee:	Alexander Larsson <alexl>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	hp
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Description Ted Clark 2002-10-08 16:15:44 UTC

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Description of problem:
When I type 'smb:' in the Nautilus location bar I get an error dialog that says
'Nautilus cannot display "smb:///".'  If I reboot to (null) this works fine. 
This _was_ working in psyche for a while right after I had (fresh) installed.

I have gnome-vfs2-extras-0.99.5-1 installed.  I did a forced install of the
Nautilus and gnome-vfs2* packages from (null), this did not help.  I reinstalled
the correct Nautilus and gnome-vfs2* packages and renamed my ~/.nautilus and
~/.gconf/apps/nautilus directories, still does not work.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start Nautilus
2. enter 'smb:' in the location bar
3.
	

Actual Results:  I get an error dialog that says 'Nautilus cannot display
"smb:///".'

Expected Results:  Nautilus should display SMB shares.

Additional info:

nautilus-2.0.6-6
gnome-vfs2-2.0.2-5
gnome-vfs2-devel-2.0.2-5
gnome-vfs2-extras-0.99.5-1

Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2002-10-08 19:51:40 UTC

Does smb://some_machine/ work? (where some_machine is the netbios name of some
machine with smb exports on the local network)

Comment 2 Ted Clark 2002-10-08 20:59:24 UTC

Yes, it does work!

Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2002-10-09 06:57:55 UTC

So it seems browsing is broken.
Just to check, can you please try these:
smb:
smb://
smb:///
And write down exactly what the dialog tells you for each of them.

Comment 4 Ted Clark 2002-10-09 13:23:28 UTC

Now this is interesting..

smb:    -> Nautilus cannot display "smb:///".
smb://  -> Nautilus cannot display "smb:".
smb:/// -> Nautilus cannot display "smb:///".

Comment 5 Alexander Larsson 2002-10-09 13:55:04 UTC

But it doesn't say 
"smb:///" is not a valid location. Please check the spelling and try again.
which would have indicated that smb support wasn't found.
So, something goes wrong while trying to browse the lan. strange.

Comment 6 Ted Clark 2002-10-09 14:26:22 UTC

Nope, I don't get any error messages about not being a valid location.

This used to work, and reinstalling the packages did not fix it, so I think
there's probably some configuration or state information squirrelled away
somewhere that's messing it up.  Any idea on where to start looking?

Comment 7 Alexander Larsson 2002-10-10 08:51:10 UTC

Other people who have seen this had a firewall set up that was in the way.
Can you try:
/sbin/service iptables stop
/sbin/service ipchains stop
as root, and then retry.

Comment 8 Ted Clark 2002-10-10 12:58:26 UTC

Stopping and restarting iptables worked.  Thanks Alex!

Comment 9 James Ryley 2004-08-10 00:10:20 UTC

Was there ever a solution to this?  I am running Redhat 9 and I am 
encountering the exact same behavior.