Ubuntu Networking :: Error - Cannot Connect To Server - You Must Enter A Name For The Server

In Gnome Places->Connect To Server dialog, I am having problem using the Custom Location Service Type. I enter in the URI as

Code:

smb://username:password@ipaddress/share_name

I get an pop up error message that says:

Quote:

Cannot Connect To Server. You must enter a name for the server.

Which would be fine if there was actually a place for me to enter the name which there is not. What am I doing wrong. This is the first time I have tried using the Connect To Server dialog. Normally I just use a script I wrote to mount my share in a folder on my local drive as some programs cannot access the mounted network folder. In a browser all I have to do is:

Code:

smb://ipaddress/share_name

I tried using Windows Shares, but that did not work either. It does work if I click on network and access the share that way, but some programs like firefox and a few others that I want to save a file to my network drive do not show the network unless the share is mounted in a folder. So, I wrote a script:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#mount ext storage drive
mount -t cifs //192.168.0.2/files -o username="username",password="password" /mnt/files

This works and I can use this, but it would be handy if I could just use the Connect To Server dialog.