Inability to browse Windows shares.

[Mark Ellse]

Jono Bacon suggested I subscribe to this list to raise the profile of bug
207072. This bug is a Nautilus one. It prevents Nautilus (and therefore the
normal Ubuntu user) from browsing Windows shares on an Ubuntu computer
connected to a Windows network.

This bug turns Ubuntu from a very useful operating system,  which one can
recommend to ones friends and colleagues, to something that is pretty much
useless.

I run a school. We have a number of Ubuntu workstations and LTSP servers on
the staff networks. All this was set up since Ubuntu had for quite a while
demonstrated its ability to browse Windows networks, and therefore be up to
the task of deployment in a Windows network.

When Hardy was first released, it worked as well. But some update prevented
browing, and hence it has become useless.

Since I, as principal of the school, have deployed Ubuntu, I look stupid and
incompetent. I can tough that out. But had I been simply the IT manager,
pushing for Ubuntu consideration, I'd have lost all future credibiltiy.

What interests me is that when I email Jono about the bug, he doesn't know
anything about it. So there are clearly a large number of people who are
using, and talking about, Ubuntu without having to experience that important
Ubuntu-Windows interface in which a large part of the world lives.

Is there any development about this bug? Or are most of those who are
involved in developing Ubuntu unaware of it, and its importance?

And if there is anyone working on it, is there any anticipated timescale for
solution?

Cheers,

Mark Ellse

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/207072
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