on a meerkat fairly-vanilla install, i can't browse the windows network or connect to shares via SMB, but can access windows machines via terminal server client, browser (if they server web pages), and the printing manager. i should mention that this is a guest OS with up-to-date virtualbox guest additions. it's also important to note that i have a lucid lynx guest which works flawlessly with an identical setup in terms of resources granted to the guest OS through the VBox manager.
Typical errors are:
Could not display "network:///".
Error: DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Please select another viewer and try again.
SOMETIMES I can open the network, but trying to open the Windows Network item to view all computers there just maxes out the CPU on the gvfs-smb-browse until it gives up.
I've followed advice to make the following changes to the system:
* installed ntfs-config (per http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/sh...1&postcount=18)
* uninstalled/reinstalled gvfs and other dependent packages (per http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1278395&page=2)
* modified the /etc/nsswitch.conf and installed winbind and rebooted (per http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...50&postcount=4)
*installed the samba4 package (just my own personal try at getting things to work)
Other oddities:
* when I can open network (which seems to be after the computer has been up for awhile), it populates with a bunch of network printers and a single "Windows Network" icon, just as it did in lucid.
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