Issues accessing windows shares

[Rudi von Staden]

Nautilus seems to have some issues in browsing Windows shares. If I
use the computer -> network link and then browse to some network
location, it will show me the files fine; I can even drag the files
onto my desktop, but if I try double-clicking on a file, it will come
up with a message something like the following:

file://home/(user)/smb://(user)@(host)/(share)/(folder)/(file) does not exist.

If I mount the network share using 

mount -t smbfs -o username=<Windows user name>,password=<Windows
password> //<IP Address>/<Share Name> <Mount point on Linux machine>

and then browse to the same folder through the mount point, it works
fine. The server is a WinXP machine. If I go to Computer -> System
Configuration -> Networking, I can't enable Windows networking (not
sure if that's relevant).

Rudi