Could not browse Windows shares in local network with Nautilus

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 10:10 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm unable to setup my Fedora 17 boxes (I have one real and one virtual
> machine) to work as samba client in graphical mode (gnome shell/nautilus).
> 
> I have a little local network up to 10 hosts including virtual machines.
> I configured samba server on Ubuntu 12.04. I can access files and use
> printers easily from other computers with Ubuntu, Windows XP and Windows 7.
> 
> I can see all shares with smbclient -L <ubuntu-samba-server> command in
> my Fedora 17. When I try to navigate to my work group in nautilus it
> prompts that it could not mount the location but I can mount it manually
> from terminal.
> 
> So it looks like everything works except samba via nautilus. Is there
> anything I can do to simply browse and use my network shares form Fedora 17?

Well, for one thing, try disabling the firewall and see if that helps?
It seems like it can interfere with browsing for some bizarre reason.
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