Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 454242
Applications can't access SMB shares
Last modified: 2015-03-03 17:32:55 EST
Description of problem: Starting with Fedora 9, applications can't access SMB shares either directly (applications open dialog), when launching from nautilus or drag-and-drop from nautilus. When trying to get applications to use SMB shares I get various error messages. For example, when I am using a GNOME application's file dialog to browse to an SMB share and open a file, browsing works well but I get an error "file not found" when choosing a file and pressing the "Open" button. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.2.3-11.fc9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use nautilus to browse to an SMB share 2. Right click an image in the SMB share and choose "open with image viewer" 1. Use nautilus to browse to an SMB share 2. drag a file in to an Evolution mail composer window 1. Start Archive Manager and click File->Open 2. Browse to an SMB share and open a ZIP file on that share Actual results: Error messages Expected results: Applications should access the files normally Additional info: A few applications behave well, for example Document Viewer (evince) works quite well either by launching from nautilus, drag-and-drop or using the open file dialog. Currently the most problematic for me is Evolution and OpenOffice.org support as in my work I constantly need to write/edit documents on SMB shares and attach them to emails. Currently I have to workaround this by copying files to my desktop before editing/attaching. I have gvfs-fuse installed.
Ports of eog, file-roller and Evolution to GIO should be finished: http://live.gnome.org/GioPort Are you sure this applies to SMB shares only? I.e. other subsystems handled by gvfs are working fine with the applications mentioned? The system is designed to use session-wide mounts, which are exposed to all applications equally. Openoffice GIO support is separate issue, not sure if it's available in final F9 release (might be included in later updates).
I haven't tried all supported protocols, but everything I tried works with ssh:// just fine. I'm not sure in which version the applications you mentioned were ported, but its not in F9. OOo in F9 doesn't support smb:// urls either. Which sounds like a really bad regression to me either way - in Fedora 8 OOo handled SMB urls by itself- it prompted for a user name and password and apparently did the SMB access on its own. Now it doesn't do that anymore - it only complains at best (or silently fails to load the document at worst). On a different note altogether - isn't gvfs-fuse supposed to solve this? when nautilus launches applications that may or may not have GIO support, shouldn't it just hand them the gvfs-fuse paths instead, or is the assumption that all the applications in the world will eventually be ported to GIO (or komparable implementations)?
My apologies, but I need to make a small correction - Evolution doesn't work with ssh:// (or sftp://) mounts contrary to my previous comment. The "attach" and "save" dialogs browse mounts just fine, but you can't actually load or save a file from an ssh mount. Other applications such as evince, eog, gedit, gimp and even OpenOffice.org work just fine with ssh:// mounts (OpenOffice does ask for its own password though).
Looks like OOo has been already ported but apparently is not working. The purpose of gvfs-fuse is to allow applications not using GIO to access session mounts; for most gnome applications we pass full URI instead - that's distinguished by the .desktop files.
I've checked status of applications like Evolution and GEdit in F9 and they're not ported yet. Not sure about the other applications. The link I gave you reflects current status of the ports, i.e. unstable Gnome 2.23 release. The reason you can open ssh/sftp files but not smb is that gnome-vfs2 can handle sftp URIs without bigger problems but not smb as we don't pass login name etc.
$ rpm -q firefox firefox-3.0.1-1.fc9.i386 $ rpm -q gvfs gvfs-0.2.5-1.fc9.i386 Firefox also does not understand smb shares. The thing I find strange is I click browse on the web browser web page and it pops up the gnome file dialog. It shows my samba share as a possible choice on the left and I am able to select the photo I want to upload from the share. After I click open the file input box is still empty and I get no error message.
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This problem is also evident in Fedora 11
(In reply to comment #8) > This problem is also evident in Fedora 11 Which applications please? I think we should treat each case individually.
All the applications listed in the bug's description are indeed now supported, but Firefox (as noted in comment #6) still does not recognize remote mounts, even though it uses the GNOME file dialog.
When an application uses gnome file dialog, it doesn't automatically mean that it knows GIO. Filechooser only returns an URI and the application must treat it itself. Just talked to our Firefox maintainer and was told the GIO port is still in development and certainly not in F11. Openoffice was another special case and while developers are working hard to make it work flawlessly, there are still smaller issues. Better to file separate bugs on these applications. Any other occurence?
Hello, Is this post of mine related to this problem here? Thank you
https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=75134&forum=10
(In reply to comment #12) > Hello, > > Is this post of mine related to this problem here? > > Thank you Please open a separate bugreport to track this issue and post all relevant information there (as you did on the board linked). I'm going to close this bug as it only tracked application ports to GIO. Please open separate bugreports if any issue appears again.