Ubuntu
gigolo package

Can't open SMB shares with Thunar

Bug #473796 reported by Peter Enzerink
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gigolo

Brand new image using xubuntu alternative CD.

Able to map share in Gigolo but not able to launch Thunar from Gigolo.

Behaviour is no apparent response when attempting to open a bookmark.

Making the changes below led to desired behaviour of opening thunar when a bookmark is opened.

The gigolo help note below provides a working solution which should perhaps be included in the gigolo (or thunar?) install? I've provided an extract as well as a link to the full article.
~~~
sudo apt-get install gvfs-fuse fuse-utils
sudo gpasswd -a username fuse

Edit ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list so that Thunar is used to open folders by gvfs-open:

x-directory/gnome-default-handler=Thunar.desktop
inode/directory=Thunar.desktop
x-directory/normal=Thunar.desktop

from
http://www.uvena.de/gigolo/help.html#open-resources-in-thunar-on-xfce-4-4-and-4-6

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 4 14:57:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gigolo 0.3.2-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gigolo
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (xfce4-mixer-plugin:1386): libxfce4mixer-CRITICAL **: xfce_mixer_get_track: assertion `GST_IS_MIXER (card)' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1397): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (xfce4-terminal:1497): Terminal-WARNING **: Unable to load terminal preferences.

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Peter Enzerink (ubuntu-enzerink) wrote :
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Peter Enzerink (ubuntu-enzerink) wrote :

To clarify, the bug is relation to opening an SMB share.

Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)
summary: - Can't open shares with Thunar
+ Can't open SMB shares with Thunar
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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6215

Changed in gigolo (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

The upstream bug has been marked Invalid with the following explanation:
I don't see a bug here.

The documentation says how to get it working (even though there is no need to
quote project's documentation in the bug report...you obviously read it, I
wrote it...).

Gigolo should not inlude the necessary entries for the defaults.list, neither
Thunar should, IMO.

The next Thunar release will work natively with GIO/GVfs, so there is no need
for the gvfs-fuse backend anymore. For the meantime, it's in the users'
responsibility to setup the system correctly, as described in the
documentation.

Changed in gigolo (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
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Peter Enzerink (ubuntu-enzerink) wrote :

Without getting any error or msg dialogue, I need to intuit that I need to manually configure modules and hack files just to see a windows share. That's why more people aren't comfortable with Linux and Ubuntu.

So back to this manual configuration issue, if I wish to pursue this I'll assume I should be barking up the Thunar tree.

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

In this version of gigolo, there is no issue. You are doing what need to be done. The documentation you referenced is the explanation of how to do this at the present time. As the development progresses, it will become easier to use.

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Tybion (db-collins) wrote :

Sounds like this will be fixed when Thunar has native gvfs support. Hopefully that is in Lucid. If not, can this at least be fixed for Xubuntu simply by adding gvfs-fuse, etc to the Xubuntu installation? I think Xubuntu is a great system but we need to iron out problems like these to keep it user-friendly.

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Yannick Kiekens (yannickkiekens) wrote :

Xubuntu 9.10 gigolo report:
The fix is as simple as adding gvfs-fuse as a dependency to the gigolo package. why would this need upstream fixing? this is an ubuntu packaging issue

no editing, no configuration, just install the package and reboot. problem solved

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Yannick Kiekens (yannickkiekens) wrote :

I am an idiot, i meant Xubuntu 10.04 (*sigh*)

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Changed in gigolo:
status: Unknown → Invalid
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