290926 - Attach file from a Windows server: connect to server as user "nobody" instead of real user

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Silviu Marin-Caea]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux) KHTML/3.4.0 (like Gecko)
Build Identifier: release 1.0.2

The user tries to attach a file that's located on a samba fileserver. 
 
The server is joined to a domain and has shares with access permissions, as 
well as "public" shares. 
 
What's wrong: the user cannot attach files from shares with permissions, only 
from public shares.  It's like Thunderbird connects to the server as user 
"nobody". 
 
Accessing the restricted shares from Windows works fine.  Also attaching files 
in Outlook new messages works. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. New Message   
2. Attach file 
3. Navigate the file open dialog trying to get to 
\\fileserver\share\path\to\file 
   
Actual Results:  
Access denied when trying to access the share. 

Expected Results:  
Allow access to the file.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.