Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 214343
Inability to browse SMB shares in Nautilus and VFS aware software
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:48 EST
Description of problem: Nautilus and a other VFS aware applications (such as Totem, Rhythmbox, Listen, etc) and those utilizing the gnome file dialogs (open/save) which are present in quite a few of other applications, and use gnome-vfs to access other filesystems which are mounted virtually (like SMB in this case), are not able to access and browse SMB shares. Some examples: Opening Nautilus (in any mode) and trying to mount an SMB share via vfs (with the Connect to Server... dialog), the share will be present in the computer:/// location, however, when trying to actually open that share (unless is an annonymous share) a dialog pups up to enter the username (if it is another different than the current session), Domain (I've always assumed WorkGroup here) and the password for the session. What happens is that this dialog keeps popping up constantly until I press [cancel] or some times, it would appear that the first time the password is typed, then an error message pops up saying that the contents of the share couldn't be shown. Another example is using a KDE application to browse the share (like Konqueror) and then trying to launch a file using a GNOME VFS-aware application to view it (like Gedit, Totem, etc), what will happen is that the same user/domain/password pop up will keep popping up constantly until I press the [cancel] and then an error dialog will pop up sayin that the file cannot be opened. Also servers and shares *are* shown, just the shares are not browsable, as when trying to access those the restrictions in smb.conf will kick in per share, so until I want to browse a certain share, the user/domain/password should be sent to the server... Anyway, I want to point out that this is not an issue in Fedora Core 5 VFS implementation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-vfs2-smb-2.16.0-4.fc6 gnome-vfs2-devel-2.16.0-4.fc6 gnome-vfs2-2.16.0-4.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Nautilus and either type smb://server/share or browse the Netowrk:/// to a server with restricted access SMB shares. 2. Nautilus will display the server and the shares, try to browse them 3. Either an endless loop of dialogs asking for user/domain/password will pop up or an error message that the contents could not be shown. Actual results: Inability to browse access restricted SMB shares with Nautilus. Expected results: To be able to browse restrcited SMB shares with Nautilus (if the user/domain/password combination is correct) Additional info: Needless to say that in Windows (various versions) and with other filemanagers (Konqueror) SMB shares work just fine. I'd also like say that the server in question is running samba-3.0.23c-1.fc5. Also worth noting is that this same configuration works perfectly with a plethora of other different clients (Xbox, several Windows machines, other Linux [FC5] boxes, etc; except my FC6 desktop).
Strange. It works for me. I wonder what the difference is.
I wondered if the problem is an "inherited" home directory. However, I have a "dummy" account which I use to test a lot of stuff, and even when whiping that account of any trace of gnome configurations (only residual files are bashrc profiles), I see the exact same behavior, very strange indeed!
It's been brought to my attention that this other bug may be related to this one, or this one is in fact a duplicate of that other bug... Here's the link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214183 Here's my original report on Fedoraforum.org: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=672197
That error was a bug that was fixed in the latest update, but it shouldn't cause infinite password dialogs, so this bug seems different.
see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214183 Rick I’m still having problems also, and noticed that it is not solved. I also noticed it will bomb if it has to authenticate. I also run ubuntu and it has the same problem. Rick you might want to post here instead because this bug report is closed. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214343
Same here, I am running fc6 with: gnome-vfs2-smb-2.16.0-4.fc6 gnome-vfs2-devel-2.16.0-4.fc6 gnome-vfs2-2.16.0-4.fc6 Whenever I attempt to connect to a Windows share with nautilus, I recieve the following in messages... Nov 19 19:12:32 mercury kernel: gnome-vfs-daemo[3107]: segfault at 0000000000000020 rip 00002aaaaaafef24 rsp 0000000041e01930 error 6 I have uninstalled gnome-vfs2 and reinstalled with same results. I can mount the shares with: mount -t cifs //192.168.20.14/biggie /biggie -o user=user1,password=xxxx,domain=DOMAIN or run smbclient to connect to the shares. So I'm pretty sure Samba is running correctly. -Rick
(In reply to comment #0) I think Nautilus always wants to log in as [WORKGROUP]\GUEST to the server regardless of the actual username given in the "Authentication required" dialog box. At least this is what I see in my own /var/log/samba/... logs.
Yeah, it first tries as guest, and if that fails it asks the user for authentication. To override, specify a username in the uri (i think).
Yes, you can use the smb://user@server syntaxis, but that defeats the purpose of browsing the network... at least I think it does.
Well, a lot of people complained about the constant barrage of authentication dialogs when browsing shares that allowed anonymous login, so we made it default to log in as guest. If you need to log in as a specific user you need to specify that now. No option will make everyone happy of course... Closing this bug then. (Assuming this is the problem you're having)
I have created https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220126 as I'm seeing similar behaviour even when I specify a username and password.