Well, you should not remove all of gvfs, but the gvfs-fuse package. That can be done using the "sudo apt-get remove gvfs-fuse" command or using the "Synaptic" package manager. After that I created an entry in the file /etc/fstab - there is a lot of documentation around- I'll recommend the "arch wiki" (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samba#Automatic_Mounting)
After mounting (without sudo!) my shares like "mount /home/YOUR_USER_NAME/AFOLDER" the samba share could be accessed via the defined folder. To my surprise nemo (yes I'm using Linux Mint after years of Ubuntu...) remembered those mount points by displaying the in the bookmarks panel. So I have simply to click it and my share is mounted. If you remove all of gvfs, you won't even see on your desktop whats mounted- if you insert an usb stick, you would have to mount it yourself.... So removing "gvfs-fuse" , installing "cifs-utils" and altering the /etc/fstab file turned out to be a very elegant solution. I am tempted to check if there are further alternatives to all the gvfs packages.... Removing gvfs-backends for example made Thunar (on my xubuntu machine) very fast on startup.. but the price is that you don't have any "mount" icons... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075923 Title: nautilus hangs copying large directories from a samba share Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I have a large directory, almost 50Gb and 45.000 files shared by samba on ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS server. I used to copy the whole directory regularly on my desktop, and execute a backup with deja dup on that. I did also often backup directly from the samba share. After upgrading my client to 12.10, copying the directory hangs randomly, sometimes after having copied just 1 Gb, others having almost completed the whole transfer. It just hangs, without any crash. I noted the also Deja -dup shows the same behaviour, now it's impossible to complete a backup from the share, it just hangs. It seems to me that a bug in the samba client might be the cause of these issues, since neither nautilus nor Deja-dup have problems with local large directories. my system: Ubuntu 12.10 AMD64 nautilus: 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4 deja-dup: deja-dup 24.0-0ubuntu1 smbclient 2:3.6.6-3ubuntu5 samba-common: 2:3.6.6-3ubuntu5 samba-common-bin: 2:3.6.6-3ubuntu5 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: nautilus 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Nov 7 12:05:58 2012 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'825x550+853+471'" InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-22 (16 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1075923/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
