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gnome-vfs package

Wildcard DNS on default domain confuses Ubuntu's Windows Network browsing

Bug #85064 reported by Gavin Hamill
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gnome-vfs (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

** See comment below - original bug text kept for reference **

This is a wooly problem.

Windows XP clients show the correct machines in the four workgroups + domains present on our simple (but busy - 60 Windows PCs) 10.0.0.0/24 LAN. Ubuntu feisty herd-3 does not. (nor dapper, for that matter, but I'm less interested in that)

All OSs show the four 'ad', 'admin','mshome' and 'workgroup' groups. When browsing into 'workgroup' XP will show over dozen machines. Ubuntu unhelpfully reports 'Sorry, couldn't display all the contents of "Windows Network: workgroup"

When launching nautilus from a commandline, I see this every time I try to reload the 'workgroup' window:

** (nautilus:15711): WARNING **: Hit unhandled case 46 (Timeout reached) in fm_report_error_loading_directory

Similarly, 'findsmb' reports only 8 machines in total, which is a total nonsense.

Interestingly, browsing the 'AD' domain group shows all 16 machines which are correctly registered in the Active Directory.

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Gavin Hamill (gdh) wrote : Wildcard DNS confuses Ubuntu's Windows Network browsing

Ah ha! I found the problem.

Our domain name, laterooms.com has wildcard DNS to support white-label and partner sites at ANYTHING.laterooms.com, so any DNS internal lookups also 'fail' returning the address of our public website. Windows XP is not confused by this, but Ubuntu is.

As soon as I changed 'domain laterooms.com' in resolv.conf to 'domain blahblahblahblahlaterooms.com' and visited Places -> Network again, machines in my workgroup were immediately shown, as were all the machines in other workgroups.

This affects Dapper and Feisty herd 3, so I assume it affects Edgy, too.

description: updated
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Adam Niedling (krychek) wrote :

Any update on this? Is this still an issue?

Changed in gnome-vfs:
status: New → Incomplete
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-vfs:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
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Gavin Hamill (gdh) wrote :

Yes. Just had a chance to try an Intrepid live CD on a work laptop. Browsing 'Windows Network' shows a list of Workgroups including the 'AD' domain. Double-clicking the AD domain produces an empty list until the search domain in resolv.conf is changed to something else.

At that point, getting a list of the AD 'workgroup' is successful and returns ~150 machines

Adam Niedling (krychek)
Changed in gnome-vfs:
status: Incomplete → New
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Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I'm not sure it should be reported against gnome-vfs (which I'm not sure is still used). Maybe it's a resolv.conf issue or a nautilus one ?

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rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The version of Ubuntu your reporting this issue on is in End of Life status. You can learn more about this at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases Please update Ubuntu, provide a detailed error report, and mark this bug as new. Thanks!

Changed in gnome-vfs (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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