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

 

thank you for your bug report, is that still an issue? the afp backend
was not correctly installed at some point but that got fixed before
oneiric

** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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

Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

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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