Comment 3 for bug 914578

I am able to connect to a windows share drive,
i.e., in nautilus, typing smb://zeus
gives me the following error: "Could not display "smb://zeus/".
Error failed to retrieve share list from server. Please select another viewer and try again.

while the following works: smb://zeus/D
(where D is the name of the share) .

Unable to browse share drives available for a particular host.
This I could do on my Ubuntu 10.10 system,
now in upgrading to 12.04, it is broken.

I've attempted various work-arounds found via google search and failed, including:

1. install winbind
2. add wins to the hosts list in the nsswitch.conf file
3. uncomment name resolve configuration in smb.conf file (name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins )
4. add various lines to smb.conf file
client lanman auth = Yes
lanman auth = Yes

None worked for me..