[27157] in Athena Bugs
Re: Inconsistent nautilus smb behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Tue Dec 18 18:11:07 2007
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To: Matthew Goldstein <austein@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:10:51 -0500
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>
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It has been a long time since I've looked into this, and I haven't spent
a significant amount of time verifying this right now, but if I remember
correctly, this is because there is no smbmount for Samba on Solaris, though
there is on Linux, and I believe Nautilus can only browse a Samba share
if it successfully mounts it. If so, while frustrating at times, this
is just the way Samba is, doesn't have much to do with Athena, and is
expected behavior.
Mitch
> Hi,
>
> While helping a client I noticed that Windows shares are not accessible
> via Nautilus on Suns when they are under Linux.
> To reproduce, open nautilus and select Connect to Server from the File
> menu. Select Windows share from the Service type box and then enter a
> known good smb share.
> Under Athena Linux, the connection will work. However, on a sun, the
> error "smb://darkenergy/" is not a valid location. will appear.
>
> --Matt
