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The behaviour is still there, and very disabling, with Jaunty, and with latest patches on Intrepid.
The behaviour is intermittent, but most of the time Nautilus is unable to browse Samba shares. Occasionally the Samba shares are browseable.
Agreed that browsing a Windows peer to peer network with a Windows machine is flaky, but though it sometimes fails at first attempt, it rarely fails at a second.
IMPORTANT When the Samba shares are not browseable, it is not possible to browse for a Samba printer, either.
BUT it is possible to connect to a Samba printer by using:
EITHER smb://xxx.
OR smb://workgroup
meaning that the translation from workgroup/hostname to IP address (the essential requirement for browsing the network) is happening. (As mentioned above, SMB4K does this reliably.)