Re: network browsing

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

lør, 08,.10.2005 kl. 11.31 +0200, skrev Christian Neumair:
> Am Samstag, den 08.10.2005, 02:16 +0000 schrieb Nate Nielsen:
> > Christian Neumair wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, den 07.10.2005, 11:22 -0400 schrieb pvols charter net:
> > > 
> > >> I know that in Fedora Core 4 the version of Nautilus does not
> > >> appear to let you browse Windows networks.  Can you tell me what it
> > >> is that causes this?
> > >> 
> > >> I have installed through yum the latest nautilus and gnome-vfs
> > >> packages and I am still having the same problem.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately, it's a poor GnomeVFS implementation. It stopped
> > > working around the minor release when we introduced GUI
> > > authentication. We are desperately looking for more hackers!
> > 
> > Christian, not sure what you mean by 'minor release'. But the GUI
> > authentication problems were fixed in GNOME 2.6.
> 
> Well, for instance it doesn't detect when a new server is up (cf.
> update_workgroup_cache). Also, it often doesn't display servers which
> xsmbrowser can display.
> 
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out why SMB browsing was broken
on my fedora system, just to find out it was the local firewall that
broke it... Have you tried turning off iptables to check if that helps?

Cheers
Kjartan