[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

[Martin G Miller]

Hi Chris;
Glad it worked.  

If you look at my post #18 above, you will see that "name resolve order
= lmhosts wins bcast host" is the order that I recommended.  Assuming
you also removed the leading semicolon(;) from the line, then, that is
probably what did the trick for you.

Changing the workgroup name most likely won't have any effect in Linux
because you will see all the workgroups listed when you first start up
the network browser.  It's not like in Windows where if you're not in
the work group you see nothing.

In other bug reports on this issue I have identified the real underlying
culprit.  Your ISP is using DNS redirection.  If there is some way you
can opt out of it, it would make the resolve order change unneeded.  The
order that is used by default is a little more efficient on certain
types of corporate networks, but gives problems if DNS redirection is
used.  There is serious discussion going on now about changing the
default or making other changes to detect the network status to avoid
this problem.  Because DNS redirection is being used by more and more
ISP's as a source of generating income, something needs to be done to
address this issue.

If you want to read about it, there is more detail here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389909

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cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf
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