Nautilus/Gnome Can't Access Vista SMB Shares

[Valent Turkovic]

Vista has a new version of "samba" ie windows shareing which was made
to NOT work with linux samba clients. But AFAIK new versions of samba
should work, maybe you have an old version.

On 3/4/07, Khoa Ton <khoa at puresynergy.com> wrote:
> I'm playing around with Windows Vista, and it seems that Gnome/Nautilus
> on FC5 can't access the Vista shares.  Let's say theres a directory
> on the Vista system:
>         smb://vistaserver/sharename/directory
> I can navigate to:
>         smb:///
>         smb://vistaserver
>         smb://vistaserver/sharename
> but when I double click on a directory under the share, I get an error
> window:
>         Nautilus cannot display "smb://vistaserver/sharename/directory".
>         Please select another viewer and try again.
> The directory icon becomes a generic paper document instead of a folder
> at this point.
>
> I can get to the same Vista sharename and directory using smbclient fine:
>         $ smbclient //vistaserver/sharename/
>         > cd directory
>         > dir
>         [listing of directory files]
>
> I can also use Nautilus to get to Samba shares as well as Windows XP shares.
> Also, other Windows systems are accessing the same Vista share fine.
>
> Looks like an incompatibility with Nautilus or gnome-vfs somewhere.
> This is what I'm running:
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep nauti
> nautilus-open-terminal-0.7-1.fc5
> nautilus-cd-burner-2.14.3-2.fc5
> nautilus-sendto-0.4-7.2
> nautilus-2.14.3-1.fc5
> $ rpm -qa | grep gnome-vfs
> gnome-vfs2-devel-2.14.2-1
> gnome-vfs2-smb-2.14.2-1
> gnome-vfs2-2.14.2-1
> gnome-vfs2-2.14.2-1
>
> Any suggestion as to where to look for more detailed error messages would
> be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Khoa
>
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