problem connecting to Windows network

[James Takac]

On Sunday 09 September 2007 10:24:30 Jimmy Wu wrote:
> On 9/7/07, Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/7/07, Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 9/7/07, Marc Rios <marcrios84 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > have you tried to access smb://ip_of_win_host ???
> > >
> > > Yeah, that doesn't work
> > >
> > > Jimmy
> >
> > An update: just tried typing in the ip, and it works.  Now my question is
> > what happened to the name resolution?  Network printing won't work now
> > either, because the printer is attached to the Windows machine, and was
> > set up using the host name, not IP.
> >
> > Jimmy
>
> bump?
>
> found on ubuntuforums.org a few related threads
> one of them says that suddenly losing connection to Windows shares is a
> Ubuntu bug
> The thread was talking about Dapper I believe -- does this bug still exist
> in Feisty?
>
> I've tried starting nautilus in root and disabling firestarter, but nothing
> works.  I haven't changed any settings and this used to work, so I don't
> know what's going on.
>
> I really would like some way to fix it, as now I can't print and I can't
> transfer files from the Windows computer to my Ubuntu one over the network
> anymore
>
> Jimmy

Hi Jimmy

Out of 3 ubunty systems (all Feisty), 2 wont see the windows network. Maybe 
it's a lil like trying to add things to the session manager? There was a bug 
which manifest where permissions and groups weren't setup properly. I don't 
know enuf as to why it's happening here as well, but I can already see it 
doesn't affect all systems

James