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 -- cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375593 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
