Bug 339973

Summary:	Unable to use Windows share in an enterprise domain environment.
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Richard Clinker <richclinker>
Component:	smb	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	major	CC:	emmanuelpescosta099, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.13.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
URL:	smb://PRBUK%5Ce1153226@entadc05p/andfs/Shared_SWDTS14/Service%20Monitoring/WideVision
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Richard Clinker 2014-10-15 09:35:07 UTC

Unable to use Windows share in an enterprise domain environment.  Have also tried replacing the @ with %40 in the above example but this also fails with either invalid location or internal error message.  Using Nautilus and smb://prbuk;e1153226@entadc05p/andfs/Shared_SWDTS14/Service%20Monitoring/WideVision works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  attempt to connect to a Windows share where user is required to authenticate against a domain.
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Actual Results:  
either internal error or invalid share message.

Expected Results:  
Able to brows share.

This has worked in previous versions of Dolphin.  Sorry, don't know at which point it started failing.

I feel this is a bug worth addressing as it could potentially be a barrier to using KDE in an enterprise desktop environment.

Comment 1 Emmanuel Pescosta 2014-10-15 09:46:11 UTC

Thanks for the bug report!

We use KIO to access samba shares, so I'll reassign it to KIO.
I'll also set the importance to major because of "Unable to use Windows share in an enterprise domain environment."

Comment 2 Emmanuel Pescosta 2014-10-15 09:56:11 UTC

Are you sure that the problem is caused by the @?

Accessing the samba share "emmanuel@hydro/fotos" works here.

I think the problem is caused by % in "PRBUK%5Ce1153226", can you please check it?

Comment 3 Richard Clinker 2014-10-15 12:53:34 UTC

From email reply to Emmanuel:

The %5C should, as far as I know, replace the \ that would normally be between a domain and user ID when logging in to a Windows share.  Nautilus seems to deal with that by using a semi colon between domain and user.

The only reason I tried %40 instead of @ is that I saw some mention in a potentially similar bug (found by searching reports for "domain") that @ is not a character that could be handled.  Clearly that's not the case.  I think it is some sort of problem with either / or %5C or some other domain authentication related issue.

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2017-10-28 16:38:43 UTC

In general you don't need to escape characters like that. You can use @ and : in samba URLs, but you should use forward slashes (/) instead of Windows backslashes (\).

So a valid Samba URL looks like this:

smb://username[:optional password]@share/optional/path/to/file