Could not browse Windows shares in local network with Nautilus

[Mateusz Marzantowicz]

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.

Thanks for your reply.

I've checked firewall and to my knowledge it's disabled, here is what my
iptables -L prints:

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination        

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination        

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination


As I mentioned in my original e-mail I can access my samba shares form
command line (smbclient and mount -t cifs ....). The problem only occurs
when using nautilus. I've also disabled SELinux but without any luck. I
think, I should be asked for password for my share somewhere during
clicking in nautilus but I'm not. Maybe there is a failure?


Mateusz Marzantowicz