Comment 66 for bug 282298

I have added the repo for the fix to my sources and downloaded and installed all the updates but still cannot access any samba shares on Ubuntu 8.10, Xubuntu 8.10 or the Mint based on 8.10, on both the 32 and 64 bit versions. This includes Xubuntu 8.04 installs which I upgraded to 8.10. They had access to all shares before but not after the upgrade. Nothing else has changed on my lan as concerns hardware or settings. The only change was the upgrades. The installs I have of Xubuntu 8.04 still can access all my samba shares from boxes running XP and from linux boxes running samba. The Klikit-linux RC3 based on Kubuntu Hardy can also access all the shares. I can see the other samba shares with 8.10 installs, I just cannot access them at all. I have simple sharing set up on all the boxes on my lan, and have never used any passwords or users. I have several boxes set up in my office and 1 in my living room. They are connected with wired ethernet together with two gigabit network switches one of which is connected to a wireless router connected to a cable modem. All use manually set dedicated IP addresses. I have tried using DHCP as well but no change. The workgroup on all shares is set to workgroup.

The problem is not in samba from what I can tell as all shares can access shares on the 8.10 boxes with read/write permissions. The problem appears to be in smbclient or it's dependencies. I have read some conjecture in various places about the problem being with this or that file manager, but I have the same problem with dolphin, konqueror, and nautilus. Nautilus gives this error:

Sorry, could not display all the contents of "Windows shares on mediaserver": DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

If there is not a fix of some sort soon I'm giving up on 8.10 and going back to 8.04 which works perfectly for me. I hate to do it though because otherwise I really like 8.10. I'm really at wits end with this issue. Later... cos