Same here... I have started with 14.04LTS and I could reach a Win2008 machine. After several updates, somewhere in the first quarter of 2016, I believe something things got strange. I purged samba and reinstalled it - no change.
I have several personal shared folders, made from nautilus, and all Win machines can reach them (as guest user). However, I can not reach a Win2008 server or other Win7 - shared folder. Both gvfs-mount and nautilus dialogue keep asking for password/domain again and again. Setting aforementioned combinations such as: client lanman auth = no client ntlmv2 auth = no client ntlm = yes .. does not help. So I have browsed the old /etc/samba/ and have found several older smb.conf files: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9542 Mar 1 2015 smb.conf.old.gadmin-samba-0.3.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9542 Jun 11 2015 smb.conf.ucf-dist Basically, these two old were from time when everything was ok, and guess what, after I have copied them in smb.conf, nautilus and gvfs-mount still were not working (and keep asking for password/domain). There you have it. It is not a thing in smb.conf, but (my best guess) the bug is probably in gvfs-mont. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/510059 Title: Gvfs keeps asking for password when trying to mount Samba share Status in gvfs: Unknown Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: nautilus My Ubuntu Desktop (9.10, 64-bit) VM can't connect to my Windows 7 (64-bit, Ultimate) File Share using Nautilus. I enter "smb://<comuterName>" in the address bar and then it comes up with a password dialog (see screenshot) and then after entering the correct login info, the dialog disappears for a second or two but then reappears again. The dialog always comes back up and the share is never mounted. * Connecting from an XP box on the network to the windows 7 share works just fine. * Connecting from the Ubuntu machine to the windows 7 share using the appropriate 'smbmount' command works just fine. * Connecting from the Ubuntu machine (using the nautilus GUI) to the XP box (password protected) works just fine. * Then I turned off password protection in Win7, rebooted the win7 machine, and still all of the above tests turned out the same. And the Ubuntu machine still doesn't connect to the windows share using the nautilus GUI, and still displays the password dialog even though no password is required anymore. * I tried using smbclient to view the shares, here is the output (not sure if I should be trying something else using the smbclient program): o eddie@eddie-ubuntu:~$ smbclient -L eddie-win7 Enter eddie's password: session setup failed: SUCCESS - 0 ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Jan 17 15:41:28 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-server SourcePackage: nautilus Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-server x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/510059/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
