I'm affected too, running Ubuntu 12.10.
Based on comment #43 I created a (a little) more friendly workaround for
my users, based on a shell script prompting the user using zenity. I'm
sharing it here, hoping it can be useful to someone. Hope we won't need
it for a long time.
Consider that I'm using this script on PCs rurring in a office, where a
Windows Server is always running, so I don't care about umounting the
shares.
First time setup:
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sudo mkdir /mnt/cifs
And then, for each user:
sudo mkdir /mnt/username
sudo chown username:users /mnt/username
Also added to sudoers a line like this (I know it may be a security hole):
%users ALL=NOPASSWD:/bin/mount
Here's the script, you will need to edit the list of shares in 3rd line and
your domain in sixt line, and put it somewhere in your path:
#!/bin/bash
# MountShare.sh
SHARE=`zenity --list --text="Choose the share you want to mount"
--column="Share" FirstShare SecondShare ThirdShare`
SUSER=`zenity --entry --text='Insert your user name' --entry-text=$USER`
SPASS=`zenity --password`
DOM='mydomain.net'
mkdir /mnt/cifs/$USER/$SHARE
sudo mount -t cifs -o user=$SUSER,pass=$SPASS,domain=$DOM -o uid=$USER \
"//192.168.0.3/$SHARE" /mnt/cifs/$USER/$SHARE && \
zenity --info --text="Share $SHARE mounted, look in /mnt/$USER/$SHARE" & \
nautilus /mnt/cifs/$USER/$SHARE
Also created a .desktop launcher to make it easy to run this script:
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Mount Samba Shares
Comment=Mount shares from our server
Exec=MountShare.sh
Terminal=true
Icon=/usr/share/icons/Human/48x48/places/gnome-fs-smb.png
Type=Application
Categories=Network;FileTransfer;
Version=1.0
I leaved the option "Terminal=true" cause my user, that is in the sudo
group, still get sudo password query (any tip?). This way I see the
query and can answer to it.
Every time
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To mount shares, it's enough that users double click on the .desktop launcher
and provide the needed informations. In our network, it happens only once a
day, and only when needed.
It's a temporary solution I hope we won't need. Anyway, any suggestion
and tip is welcome.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075923
Title:
nautilus hangs copying large directories from a samba share
Status in GVFS:
Confirmed
Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Problem
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Copying files to and from samba shares (this includes Windows shares) is
unreliable in Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04 when using nautilus' integrated
samba client (gvfs-smb): The copy randomly hangs after a few files or a few GB.
Workaround
==========
Until gvfs-smb is fixed, use the kernel samba client (cifs) that works
reliably, is faster, but needs some terminal commands to get going:
# sudo -s
# mkdir /mnt/cifs
# mount -t cifs -o user=YOUR_SAMBA_USER -o uid=YOUR_LINUX_USER
"//SAMBA_SERVER/SAMBA_SHARE" /mnt/cifs
It will ask for you password, you can then access the shared files at
/mnt/cifs.
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