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[Dennis Sheil <293311@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"nfs shares are usually local"

We have a lot of ambiguity with the word local here, which is the entire
problem.  I'm not sure what local means in "nfs shares are usually
local" - on the local host?  On the same subnet?  In the same location?
In the same organization?  In the same city?  Furthermore, on what basis
are these assumptions being made, I've seen plenty of NFS shares from
machines in say, Tokyo or London to machines in New York.  The basis for
making this bug invalid is ambiguous, and where it is not ambiguous I
don't know on what basis someone would say NFS shares are usually local.
And even if NFS shares were local 75% of the time, whatever local means,
what would that have to do with the failure rate the other 25% of the
time.

I assume local in this specific context means whatever GIO/GVFS  for
Nautilus considers local.

Upstream did implement it this way, but I think they should be alerted
to this ambiguity.  I had the same problem myself today before I came
across this bug report.

Even if they do choose to let it remain, I think there should be thought
into changing this locally.  Isn't the entire point of the Ubuntu
desktop, as opposed to say Debian or Gentoo or whatever, to be user-
friendly?  I've been a professional Unix systems administrator since the
mid-1990s, and I can't make heads or tails by what Nautilus means by
local, even looking over the code and documentation.  So what hope has
the average Ubuntu user?

I will be reporting this upstream.

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Title:
  nautilus thumbnails files on a mounted NFS share

Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: nautilus

  In the nautilus file browser, Edit -> Preferences -> Preview,
  thumbnailing is set to "Local Files Only". However, nautilus will
  still try to thumbnails video files on an NFS share.

  Seeing this on ubuntu 8.10, package version 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu1

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