I'm affected too, running Ubuntu 12.10. Based on comment #43 I created a (a little) more friendly workaround for my users, based on a shell script prompting the user using zenity. I'm sharing it here, hoping it can be useful to someone. Hope we won't need it for a long time.
Consider that I'm using this script on PCs rurring in a office, where a Windows Server is always running, so I don't care about umounting the shares. First time setup: ----------------------- sudo mkdir /mnt/cifs And then, for each user: sudo mkdir /mnt/username sudo chown username:users /mnt/username Also added to sudoers a line like this (I know it may be a security hole): %users ALL=NOPASSWD:/bin/mount Here's the script, you will need to edit the list of shares in 3rd line and your domain in sixt line, and put it somewhere in your path: #!/bin/bash # MountShare.sh SHARE=`zenity --list --text="Choose the share you want to mount" --column="Share" FirstShare SecondShare ThirdShare` SUSER=`zenity --entry --text='Insert your user name' --entry-text=$USER` SPASS=`zenity --password` DOM='mydomain.net' mkdir /mnt/cifs/$USER/$SHARE sudo mount -t cifs -o user=$SUSER,pass=$SPASS,domain=$DOM -o uid=$USER \ "//192.168.0.3/$SHARE" /mnt/cifs/$USER/$SHARE && \ zenity --info --text="Share $SHARE mounted, look in /mnt/$USER/$SHARE" & \ nautilus /mnt/cifs/$USER/$SHARE Also created a .desktop launcher to make it easy to run this script: #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open [Desktop Entry] Name=Mount Samba Shares Comment=Mount shares from our server Exec=MountShare.sh Terminal=true Icon=/usr/share/icons/Human/48x48/places/gnome-fs-smb.png Type=Application Categories=Network;FileTransfer; Version=1.0 I leaved the option "Terminal=true" cause my user, that is in the sudo group, still get sudo password query (any tip?). This way I see the query and can answer to it. Every time ---------------- To mount shares, it's enough that users double click on the .desktop launcher and provide the needed informations. In our network, it happens only once a day, and only when needed. It's a temporary solution I hope we won't need. Anyway, any suggestion and tip is welcome. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075923 Title: nautilus hangs copying large directories from a samba share To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1075923/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs