[Bug 316862] Re: Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2009-05-14 Thread johnsdagg
ubuntu network browsing on a windows peer-to-peer network worked for me in 7.04 and 7.10. did not/does not work for me in 8.10 nor 9.04. i'm running 9.04 now and the only way i can browse to my windows shares is to set the windows boxes to static IPs and then enter those IPs in the ubuntu hosts f

[Bug 363635] Re: Screensaver does not work in 9.04

2009-05-14 Thread johnsdagg
screen saver in 9.04 does not work for me. never works after coming out of suspend or hibernation. a reboot sometimes makes it work again but not always. doesn't matter what type of screen saver i choose... if i set screen saver to activate after 5 minutes... at 5 minutes screen slowly starts t

[Bug 363635] Re: Screensaver does not work in 9.04

2009-05-14 Thread johnsdagg
screen saver in 9.04 does not work for me. never works after coming out of suspend or hibernation. a reboot sometimes makes it work again but not always. doesn't matter what type of screen saver i choose... if i set screen saver to activate after 5 minutes... at 5 minutes screen slowly starts t

[Bug 316862] Re: Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2009-04-30 Thread johnsdagg
similarly, i can make computer01 and computer02 entries in the /etc/hosts file which allows nautilus to behave as one would hope, but again this isn't a solution because i have other boxes on the network that use dynamic ip addresses. example /etc/hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.

[Bug 360513] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines

2009-04-28 Thread johnsdagg
i still have this problem and it has never gone away - recently installed 9.04 on a new drive but i can still boot into 7.10 off my older drive if i choose. samba installed, can see shared folders on 9.04 box from any windows xp box BUT 9.04 box is unable to resolve windows host names using nautil

[Bug 316862] Re: Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2009-04-29 Thread johnsdagg
i seem to have the same gvfs/nautilus problem - recently installed 9.04 on a new drive but i can still boot into 7.10 off my older drive if i choose. samba installed, can see shared folders on 9.04 box from any windows xp box BUT 9.04 box is unable to reach windows shares using nautilus 2.26.2. u

[Bug 363635] Re: Screensaver does not work in 9.04

2009-05-19 Thread johnsdagg
update: today i brought jaunty out of suspend and low and behold screen saver is now working. apparently the problem is intermittent. i wish i could provide more/better info to debug/understand this problem. -- Screensaver does not work in 9.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363635 You received

[Bug 316862] Re: Nautilus fails to browse windows shares

2010-08-31 Thread johnsdagg
I'm not a Linux expert but I believe I've stumbled upon something that may help others debug/solve this problem - if you open FireStarter, go to Preferences/Advanced Options and UNCHECK "Block broadcasts from external network" the problem goes away. Doesn't that mean that this is really an IPTABLE