Comment 2 for bug 104856

Hi,

Many thanks mate will look into what you have written.

Regards,
Ian

On 02/05/07, felixjmm <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>
> hi, i have the same problem, but i know how to live with it!
>
> i will tell you what is hapenning to me so you can decide if it solves
> your problem
>
> I have 3 computers in a wired-lan at my home. My PC with ubuntu and
> others with XP. Network Workgroup is perfectly configure in all machines
> but when i open the network place folder in the ubuntu pc i can´t see
> the others pcs. So i don´t have connectivity to my lan!!! which is not
> desirable
>
> Trying and trying how to solve this problem i found a simple solution
> (is a little Annoying but works).... belive it or not, aparently ubuntu
> doens´t save the workgroup that you specified when you configured samba.
>
> What i do it this, go to SYSTEM-ADMIN-NETWORK then go to the tab called
> GENERAL and write again your workgroup and the name of the computer,
> then save this with a name (could be Home or default) and then apply the
> changes and exit, after that you will be able to see all your network.
> after you reboot or powerdown you pc you will have the problem again,
> but this time you just have to go to SYSTEM-ADMIN-NETWORK and load the
> configuracion you saved before (called Home or default) and apply the
> changes again.
>
> I dont know why is this happens ... but i know how to live with...
>
> --
> gnome cant access windows network.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104856
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