I just discovered something new and need to add this bit of information in regards to this "bug" report... When you install Fedora for the first time, it appears that clicking the "Computer" icon results in a window being opened without the "Location:" bar, i.e. in "Open" mode. Since this "Open" mode is propgated to further child-windows until you get to the window to open the hidden-shares via the control-L method, this results the bug behavior as I reported. I discovered that if you right-click the mouse over the "Computer" icon and select the "Browse Folder" mode, the problem goes away when you type in the hidden share desired in the "Location: " textbox because the "Authenication" dialog box now appears so that you can provide the login credentials in order to proceed. Somehow, the "Authenication" dialog box is prevented from being launched from the file "Open" mode or when the control-L is invoked within the shared window area. ~Dan -----Original Message----- From: Daniel B. Thurman Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:27 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: FC3: Nautilus Windows-hidden-share bug? Hi Folks, I note, that for FC3, the Nautilus for windows has a behavior such that when I try to access the hidden shares, it hangs forever. Even if you try to go back to the Network Window and open another server, regardless of what it is. You have to locate the Nautilus process and kill it so that you can open another system for it's shared resources. Here are the steps to duplicate it: 1) Open "Computer" icon and a 'Network' window pops up. 2) Open a windows server (2000/XP, for which there are no public shares) which I called "Jupiter" and a new window with title: 'Windows Network: Jupiter on Jupiter' pops up and after finding no public shares after some time, an error dialog message box pops up. 3) The Error Dialog Message says: 'Folder Contents could not be displayed You do not have tge permissions necessary to view the contents of "Windows Network: Jupiter" OK ' 4) Click the "Ok" button and dialog box goes away but 'Windows Network: Jupiter on Jupiter' window remains. In this window, type: Control-L and another dialog box pops up, showing the title: 'Open Location': ' Open Location Location: smb://Jupiter Cancel Open ' 5) In the 'Open Location' dialog box, type in the hidden share as: ' Open Location Location: smb://Jupiter/c$ Cancel Open ' and then mouse-click the 'Open' folder icon 6) At this point, the 'Open Location' dialog opens a new window with title: 'c$ on Jupiter' and if the windows cursor is inside this window, the hour-glass remains running forever, i.e. hangs and ties down the Nautilus process and prevents any network shared system to be opened in the 'Network' window. In order to open a new shared server, locate the running Nautilus process and kill it. Is this a bug or what? Best regards, Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list