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[Rachel Greenham <846473@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

When using Nautilus to browse network, you can see available volumes on
the various machines on the local net. Advertised afp volumes shared out
by macs or linux hosts using netatalk show up in this window, but trying
to mount them just gets you an error dialog: 'Could not display
"afp://<hostname>:548/". The file is of an unknown type'.

To my knowledge there isn't a client-side implementation of afp on
Linux, so there seems little point in displaying advertised afp volumes.

Alternatively, if there is a client-side afp for Linux - whether as a
classic mountable filesystem or via gvfs - that the user doesn't know
about, there should be a prompt to install the necessary components and
enable it. :-) This would, of course, be ideal, but I really don't think
there is a netatalk-client is there? :-)

But the current practice of showing completely unmountable volumes just
clutters the network browser - especially given, in my case, the same
hosts are sharing out and advertising sftp as well and those *are*
mountable, but there doesn't seem to be a way of identifying which of
the two volumes for a host is the afp one and which is the sftp one
until you actually try to mount it.

This only turned up after upgrading to Oneiric beta, so I presume a
decision was made somewhere along the way to display such volumes as
mountable. But surely that only works if they actually are? :-)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.1.90-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 10 16:01:45 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-05 (5 days ago)

** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity

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Title:
  Browse networks shows afp mounts but can't mount them

Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When using Nautilus to browse network, you can see available volumes
  on the various machines on the local net. Advertised afp volumes
  shared out by macs or linux hosts using netatalk show up in this
  window, but trying to mount them just gets you an error dialog: 'Could
  not display "afp://<hostname>:548/". The file is of an unknown type'.

  To my knowledge there isn't a client-side implementation of afp on
  Linux, so there seems little point in displaying advertised afp
  volumes.

  Alternatively, if there is a client-side afp for Linux - whether as a
  classic mountable filesystem or via gvfs - that the user doesn't know
  about, there should be a prompt to install the necessary components
  and enable it. :-) This would, of course, be ideal, but I really don't
  think there is a netatalk-client is there? :-)

  But the current practice of showing completely unmountable volumes
  just clutters the network browser - especially given, in my case, the
  same hosts are sharing out and advertising sftp as well and those
  *are* mountable, but there doesn't seem to be a way of identifying
  which of the two volumes for a host is the afp one and which is the
  sftp one until you actually try to mount it.

  This only turned up after upgrading to Oneiric beta, so I presume a
  decision was made somewhere along the way to display such volumes as
  mountable. But surely that only works if they actually are? :-)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: nautilus 1:3.1.90-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Sep 10 16:01:45 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: nautilus
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-05 (5 days ago)

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