538849 - smb:// won't work

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Gary Dean]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8pre) Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Shiretoko/3.5.8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8pre) Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Shiretoko/3.5.8pre

i am wanting to use Firefox to connect to my smb shares. However, i keep getting this error message:

    Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (smb) isn't associated with any program.


I hope this is sufficient detail for someone to give me some ideas for how to solve this problem.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.set up samba shares (yes, they've been working for years)
2.set up firefox: network.protocol-handler.external.smb=true, network.protocol-handler.app.smb=/usr/bin/nautilus
3.try to open shares using smb, eg, smb://okusi0/GENERAL

Actual Results:  
Error message:
  Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (smb) isn't associated with any program.



Expected Results:  
open nautilus showing contents of folder

Comment 1

[Gary Dean]

Solution to this problem can be found here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/firefox-smb-woes-...-any-ideas-781219/

thanks to GrapefruiTgirl / Sasha and others on linuxquestions.org for their persistence!