Howto: Fix Windows share browsing issues

[lwfitz]

Howto: Fix Windows share browsing issues

You rock! Thank you for this. Worked like a charm on crunchbang 10.

[Brian Willian]

thank you, solve my problem.

[HotPlug]

Hi!!
Turns out the culprit was a CISCO VPN software that does some firewalling of its own. After removing it ping works fine AND ALL WINDOWS SHARES CAN BE BROWSED FROM NAUTILUS!! hooray

--hope this helps somebody,
Emil

Man, you saved the rest of my hairs from being pulled out in rage. I've spent 3 days tweaking samba and nsswitch without any success until I found your post. This stuped cisco anyconnect indeed somehow spoils windows shares browsing. '/etc/init.d/vpnagentd stop' resolved the issue.

Cheers, Emil.