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Bug 126297 - SMB:// does not open Window's machine shares
SMB:// does not open Window's machine shares
Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Module: smb
unspecified
Other Linux
: High major
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-11-05 15:42 UTC by Narayana Pattipati
Modified: 2009-08-15 18:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Narayana Pattipati 2003-11-05 15:42:36 UTC
I am not able to open any Window's share on my RH 9.0 machine. 

Versions of related components:

nautilus-2.4.x (latest HEAD)	
gnome-vfs-extras-0.9.11
samba-3.0

I did the following:

a) Start nautilus and type smb://m3-gnome-naren/
b) Nautilus throws up username/password dialog. 

After giving correct username/password, it throws up an error dialog
"You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of
"smb://m3-gnome-anju"."

And I get the following messages on the commandline
auth_fn called: server: m3-gnome-anju share: IPC$ wgroup WORKGROUP
UNLOCK
do_is_local(): smb://m3-gnome-anju
do_is_local(): smb://m3-gnome-anju
do_is_local(): smb://m3-gnome-anju
do_is_local(): smb://m3-gnome-anju
do_is_local(): smb://m3-gnome-anju

Is there any extra samba configuration I need to do so that I can access
the shares.

Right now, I am just adding the correct work groupname to
/etc/samba/smb.conf file, which is the smb default configuration file.

Note:
1. I can mount the Window's share ("naren") from commandline to /mnt
  mount -t smbfs -o username=naren //m3-gnome-naren/naren /mnt

2. I could see the all the shares on the machine "m3-gnome-naren" using
smbclient.
 smbclient -L //m3-gnome-naren -U=naren

3. Also I could user the smbclient prompt to access the shared files.
  smbclient \\\\m3-gnome-anju\\naren -U=naren
Comment 1 Christophe Fergeau 2003-11-15 23:01:02 UTC
Moving smb bugs to gnome-vfs-extras
Comment 2 Jason Leach 2004-02-10 15:32:47 UTC
Moving back to gnome-vfs (the smb module has been moved there,
gnome-vfs-extras is "dead").
Comment 3 Luis Villa 2004-02-12 16:58:04 UTC
Upping priority, this is an important problem, if I understand it
correctly. [Possibly not, Alex, kick my ass if so.]
Comment 4 Alexander Larsson 2004-02-18 12:02:29 UTC
Please test with the smb in the 2.5.x version of gnome-vfs. This is
much improved, especially wrt authentication.
Comment 5 Narayana Pattipati 2004-03-05 14:08:45 UTC
Alex, 
thanks for the suggestion.

I could not simulate the bug with nautilus-2.5.8, gnome-vfs-2.5.7 and
samba-3.0.x version. Hence, closing the bug.