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[ubuntu] Help with Samba

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Weird problem. When I use nautilus and try to "Browse Network" by opening shares on another computer in my network, I get an error message that Ubuntu "failed to retrieve share list from server." However, if I open a terminal and type: nautilus smb//192.168.1.105, I can browse all the shares perfectly. Can somone help me troubleshoot this? Thanks! (Hardware)

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Submitted by xskl on 08/18/2012 – Made popular on 08/18/2012

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