Bug#354984: samba support and error messages

[Bas Zoetekouw]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.12.2-2
Severity: normal

I just tried connecting to an smb share (from the "Places/Connect to
Server" panel menu), and this all seems to work fine: it seemed to
support smb ("windows share", but ok), I could enter all my data, and
a nice icon was created on my desktop.  So far, so good.

However, when clicking this icon, gnome/nautilus gave the incredibly
non-helpful error message popup "could not connect to share X" (or
something like that).  It didn't say whether it couldn't find the
server, whether the share didn't exist or is maybe my
username/password was wrong.

It turned out that I didn't have gnome-vfs-extras installed, which
apparently includes the samba support. 

So I guess the bug is twofold:
1) nautilus should produce a decent error message (something like
   "your gnome version doesn't seem to have support for windows
   shares, please install gnome-vfs-extras")
2) nautilus shoudln't pretend that it can handle smb shares (in the
   "connect to server" menu and the "Places/Network Server/Windows
   Network" location) if it can't.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-rc6
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils       0.10-1          Utilities for .desktop files
ii  gconf2                   2.12.1-9        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-control-center     1:2.12.3-2      utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.10.3-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0            0.2.6-6         Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.10.1-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.10.1-2        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.6-2         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcairo2                1.0.2-3         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libeel2-2                2.12.2-3        Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]   0.2.36-3        Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libexif12                0.6.13-1        library to parse EXIF files
ii  libfontconfig1           2.3.2-2         generic font configuration library
ii  libgail-common           1.8.10-1        GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                1.8.10-1        GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4              2.12.1-9        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.5.1-2       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.8.6-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2       2.12.3-1        Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-keyring0        0.4.8-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0              2.12.0.1-5      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.12.0-2        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.12.1-1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.12.2-6        GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.8.12-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-4  Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus-extension1   2.12.2-2        libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2                1:2.12.4-1      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.10.4-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2               2.12.7-5        SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4  X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0 0.8-1           library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4  X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxcursor1              1.1.3-1         X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4  X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxi6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4  X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxinerama1             6.9.0.dfsg.1-4  X Window System multi-head display
ii  libxml2                  2.6.23.dfsg.2-2 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2               6.9.0.dfsg.1-4  X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxrender1              1:0.9.0.2-1     X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  nautilus-data            2.12.2-2        data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info         0.16-3          FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-9       compression library - runtime

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  desktop-base                  0.3.16     common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  eject                         2.1.4-1    ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  nautilus-cd-burner            2.12.3-1   CD Burning front-end for Nautilus

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