GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 756736
Nautilus 3.18.1 lost the ability to browse smb shares by ip address and by device name
Last modified: 2020-11-07 20:15:35 UTC
After installing the latest updates to Gnome (3.18.1) I needed to connect to my Samba server on my router a day after updating. I used the Recent Servers feature in Nautilus to connect to my Windows shares on the IP address of my router. I clicked connect and I had a spinning circle for a split second next to the Network in the main browsing pane that is drawn after clicking + Other Locations in the left menu pane. It stops spinning and redraws the pane with No network locations found. I can ping the router by IP address and by device name in Terminal. I can manually view the router shares with smbclient by IP address and by device name in Terminal. I can manually mount the router shares by IP address and by device name in Terminal. PROBLEM #1 I just can no longer browse the router smb shares by ip address and by device name in Nautilus. PROBLEM #2 I can bypass PROBLEM #1 by manually typing in the full path including share name in Nautilus but now I have found a second problem. Nautilus will bring up the connection dialog box asking for my authentication details. If I hit cancel as I did during my testing for writing this report the dialog box closes by Nautlius seems to be locked in a loop without timing out with Connect to Server with the full path in the connection drop-up list box and the animate horizontal progress bar underneath continues to animate (5 minutes and counting) without stopping. If I move the mouse over it the mouse cursor changes to a pointer with a small spinning cicle that never stops. If I click the Cancel button it never cancels or stops. I have to quit Nautilus to be able to get it working again by running a new instance of it. If I don't cancel the authentication dialog box and instead type in my authentication details and connect then Nautilus connects and displays the contents of the samba share just fine. Some related files and versions if it helps: On my computer: gnome-control-center 3.18.1-2 gvfs-smb 1.26.1.1-1 smbclient 4.3.0-2 nautilus 3.18.1-1 Linux Kernel=[4.2.3-1] On the Router: Server=[Samba 3.6.25] Unrelated smblcient troubleshooting: I never ran smbclient on this computer manually and first saw this error: Unable to create directory /var/cache/samba for file gencache.tdb. Error was Permission denied I removed smbclient and due to dependencies also removed gvfs-smb and gnome-control-center then I immediately reinstalled all three and I no longer saw that error message when using smbclient inside the terminal. However, it had no impace positive or negative on the problem that I am experiencing in this bug report. Hopefully nothing is wrong with Nautilus and its just my Linux system but its a month-new fresh installation so there is no old cruft or old configuration files sitting around that could be interfering and causing this problem.
Typo fix: If I hit cancel as I did during my testing for writing this report the dialog box closes by Nautlius seems to... by should be but: If I hit cancel as I did during my testing for writing this report the dialog box closes but Nautlius seems to...
Typo 2 fix: However, it had no impace positive or negative... should read However, it had no impact positive or negative...
Ignore Problem #1 for now. I've been switching between helping my wife on her laptop and my machine. Problem #2 still exists on my computer.
With Nautilus 3.18 I find myself unable to access a Windows server/share I had access to. I had that share bookmarked in the sidebar. Now it just says that it timed out trying to access it (after a few seconds). If I try to manually connect to it using the "Other places" feature, Nautilus just freezes.
I am experiencing the same problem. I cannot access any Samba shares via Nautilus. Oct 14 18:07:48 arch dbus-daemon[1302]: Activating service name='org.gnome.Nautilus' Oct 14 18:07:48 arch dbus-daemon[1302]: Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Nautilus' Oct 14 18:07:49 arch dbus[823]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service' Oct 14 18:07:49 arch systemd[1]: Starting Hostname Service... Oct 14 18:07:49 arch dbus[823]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.hostname1' Oct 14 18:07:49 arch systemd[1]: Started Hostname Service. Oct 14 18:08:01 arch gvfsd[1325]: dbus_mount_reply: Error from org.gtk.vfs.Mountable.mount(): Failed to retrieve share list from server: Connection refused Oct 14 18:08:01 arch gvfsd-network[2763]: Couldn't create directory monitor on smb://x-gnome-default-workgroup/. Error: The specified location is not mounted Oct 14 18:08:01 arch dbus[823]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Avahi' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service' Oct 14 18:08:01 arch dbus[823]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service not found. Oct 14 18:08:07 arch gvfsd[1325]: dbus_mount_reply: Error from org.gtk.vfs.Mountable.mount(): Failed to retrieve share list from server: No such file or directory Oct 14 18:08:10 arch gvfsd[1325]: dbus_mount_reply: Error from org.gtk.vfs.Mountable.mount(): Failed to retrieve share list from server: No such file or directory This is also being tracked/reported downstream at: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50801?only_watched=1&type%5B0%5D=&sev%5B0%5D=&due%5B0%5D=&cat%5B0%5D=&status%5B0%5D=open&percent%5B0%5D=&reported%5B0%5D=
Is this still reproducible?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug report if you can provide the information that was asked for in a previous comment. Thanks!