Comment 2 for bug 1401917

This is interesting to know that gvfs does not do this SMB Echo Request...
That is a pity, because gvfs is as simple as the "net use" command on Windows, and uses the Kerberos ticket, so it is a very interesting tool for companies trying to migrate to Ubuntu for desktops.

Currently, as a workaround, I did a small bash script that does exactly this (with the ls command) and which I run after user login :

#!/bin/bash
cd /run/user/$UID/gvfs/
while true
do
 for i in ./smb* ; do
  if [ -d "$i" ]; then
   ls $(basename "$i")/ &> /dev/null
  fi
 done
 sleep 120
done