Jared Evans Global Microbrand

If you have problems attempting to open CIFS/smb shares using Nautilus or Places –> Connect to Server (if using Gnome) and seeing a message about no application registered for the smb:// protocol.

These commands will register nautilus as smb:// protocol handler

$ gconftool-2 –set –type=string /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/smb/command ‘nautilus “%s”‘
$ gconftool-2 –set –type=bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/smb/enabled true
$ gconftool-2 –set –type=bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/smb/need-terminal false