Unmounting SMB shares on the desktop

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 20:44 -0500, Tom McLaughlin wrote:
> I've found a rather annoying bug involving nautilus and gnomevfs when
> used with SMB shares.  I my had my remote mp3 and home shares mounted
> simultaneously on my desktop.  When I unmounted my home share by right
> clicking on the icon the share was unmounted but I also lost access to
> mp3 share.  The song playing in rhythmbox (located on the share) stop
> playing and I could no longer browse the directory from my desktop.  I
> brought up the nautilus browser and tried to browse the host
> (smb://straycat) but no shares will list.  I ran ethereal and I see that
> while attempting to browse my mp3 share no network traffic is generated
> between my machine and my server.  I end up having to fix this by
> sending a SIGHUP to nautilus to regain functionality. 

I can't seem to reproduce this.

>  
> 
> On another note, gnomevfs has some problems getting my workgroup right
> when I connect to a share.  It's using the default of WORKGROUP.  I had
> to set it manually through the gconf key /system/smb/workgroup to get it
> correct.  From looking at recent release notes (2.8.1) it should be
> picking up the workgroup name from my system's smb.conf but it does not
> appear to be.  Thanks.

This is most likely a problem with samba-libsmbclient.  You might try
creating a ~/.smb/smb.conf with your workgroup name, and see if that
helps.  However, I think newer versions of the smb-method rely on
samba-libsmbclient directly to get this information.

Joe

> 
> Tom
> 
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