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samba package

  1. Bug #252245
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 252245

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote : Re: unable to connect to windows network pc's

James Walters, this phenomenon is verified in Trusty attempting to discover a Windows 7 share with Nautilus via a WiFi router connection. Strangely enough, if I spun up a Vista virtual local to the Trusty install (which uses a virtual switch, not a router) I could see its share by hostname with no modification.

What allowed me to see the Windows share over WiFi:
sudo nano /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files wins

Restarted and now the Windows 7 share is discoverable via hostname in Nautilus.

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