Comment 11 for bug 134752

I have the same problem. In my case the server is a SAMBA server running under Linux, and the client is a laptop running an up-to-date Ubuntu "hardy". Several SMB partitions are mounted on my laptop via automount, for example:

$ cat /etc/auto.freak
# ...
pictures -fstype=nfs,nosuid,nodev,intr freak:/home/pictures

The server "freak" is at home, unreachable from the internet. When I am at work and try to open a nautilus window, it takes ages (multiple minutes). If I connect an strace to the nautilus process, I see system calls like the following:

access("/freak/pictures/incoming/canon", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/freak/pictures/incoming/canon", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/freak/pictures/incoming/canon", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

each one taking about 30 seconds to time out. This is the case even if the directory that I am opening with nautilus is on a locally-mounted partition. The directories that are being sought are directories that I have recently accessed using nautilus while at home (i.e., while those SMB shares were accessible). During this time, the automounted partitions are *not* mounted (as determined from the "mount" command).

The long delays make nautilus nearly useless. I hope this information helps diagnose the problem. Let me know if I can help you with any more information.