Windows Network smb:/// listing not always working

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

Hi,

Tonight I fiddled around with samba for the first time and got it to 
somehow work.:-)

The only weird thing was that in the smb:/// location I couldn't get my 
workgroup to showup. Connecting to a windows PC worked but I just had to 
specify the IP address or the hostname.
After some googling I discovered that I had to open up some ports of the 
firewall to get it to show the windows network and the hosts on that 
network. So I disabled the firewall. Then the network group showed up 
the workgroup. Then the hosts didn't showup if I clicked on the 
workgroup. After sometime clicking again on the workgroup again at least 
my PC showed up. A bit later also the other PC in the network.

After rebooting my Linux PC again and disabling the firewall I again 
don't get to see the windows group. I can still connect to the other PC 
by specifying it's name directly.

Is this maybe some weird bug in nautilus (I'm using 2.8.2) or do I make 
some stupid mistake.

Jaap