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I maintain 2 networks with mixed ubuntu / Windows XP SP2 machines and this problem has not been resolved for me. All of my Ubuntu machines whether they are clean installs of 8.04 or 8.10 or 9.04, 32 or 64 bit or upgrades from earlier versions all exhibit the failure to display or browse smb shares. The only fix is to edit etc/samba/smb.conf:
# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
# to IP addresses
; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
remove the leading ; from the name resolve order line and change the order of the entries to read:
name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast host
Save the file, log off and back on.
This change fixes the problem for all my machine in both networks.
The problem remains unresolved in Jaunty unless I do this. This problem appeared suddenly in September of 2008 on 8.04 machines that had been working normally and has persisted through 8.10 and now 9.04.