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Message #14194
[Bug 846473] Re: Browse networks shows afp mounts but can't mount them
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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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