I wanted to chime in since I opened a similar bug that apparently got
deleted as a dupe...

For me, the situation is this:

Prior to Hardy, I could browse my corporate Active Directory SMB shares
using Nautilus. I was prompted for my login and password if I hadn't
previously accessed a share, saved it to my keyring, and from that point
on had no problem accessing any share I needed to (and had permissions
for). I could simply browse any server similar to "Network Neighborhood"
in Windoze.

After upgrading to Hardy, that is no longer the case. I can see the
servers, but as soon as I try to open one- I get an empty container and
my AD account gets locked out. Apparently Nautilus is trying to access
the shares with a bad or no password. It does still seem to be using my
login name (since I'm getting locked out of the AD network). If it
matters- my Ubuntu login password is different from my AD login.

Note too: While the problem with Microsoft AD is the biggest one I see,
I have the same problem on my small home network that uses SMB on a
LInux server. I can no longer browse shares on it either.

I CAN manually mount an SMB share, although sometimes I get an error:
Can't display location "smb://windowsserver/"
No application is registered as handling this file.

It is necessary on a manual mount to actually specify the share name. I
can't just mount a server to have easy access to all shares on it, like
I used to in Gutsy (and Feisty, and I believe Edgy).

Even with the error- the share shows up on my desktop (and in Places)
and I can access it for a time. It seems to timeout after about a half-
hour of inactivity though, and then I have to manually mount it again
(something else that wasn't happening before). For example- if I open a
spreadsheet on a share, and spend a half hour or so editing it, when I
try to save it- I have to enter my username and password again.

I think the problem is Nautilus or gvfs doesn't seem to be prompting for
user credentials if it cannot access a share like it used to. It also
doesn't seem to be caching them very well anymore when it does (through
a manual mount). I tried deleting my gnome keyring, so it shouldn't be
using a saved password anymore (and even if it was- it should be working
since I haven't changed it).

I don't know if any of this helps, but that's my experience. I'll gladly
provide any information I can if it helps get this fixed. This is a big
deal for anyone using or trying to use Ubuntu in a corporate
environment, most of which run Microsoft AD.

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SMB error: Unable to mount location
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209520
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