GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 440660
Connecting to a share drive where only the password is set does not work
Last modified: 2018-08-17 13:48:14 UTC
The bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106511 "Binary package hint: nautilus This bug is issued after some exchanges in the forum around the thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=393034 The problem is solved by using a work around. I'm opening a bug on the normal procedure which fails. Basically and to summarise the discussion, there is a shared folder on the network which only requires a password (like in the 90s), no user name is set. It is not possible to browse this network folder nor to attach it locally (Connect to server) using Nautilus tools. However, Samba is working properly. When using the Samba command line tools, it is possible the browse the folder and up-/down-load files. Also, manually mounting using the 'mount' command does work. When using Nautilus, if a user name is specified or not in the "Connect to server" window, there is always the same error coming up: ""320GB" couldn't be found. Perhaps it has recently been deleted." Note: 320GB is the name of the shared folder. This problem could be related with Bug 98658 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/98658/), however in our case, the Samba tools are working properly. PS: reading the entire thread is perhaps not necessary, only the first posts and the latest ones (page 3) are probably enough."
gnome-vfs got deprecated in 2008. gnome-vfs is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes in 2011. Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gnome-vfs/commits/master gio (in glib) and gvfs are its successors. See https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch33.html and https://people.gnome.org/~gicmo/gio-migration-guide/ for porting info. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Feel free to open a task in GNOME Gitlab if the issue described in this task still applies to a recent + supported version of glib/gio/gvfs. Thanks!