I had exactly the same problem: "Unable to find any workgroups in your local network. This might be caused by an enabled firewall" and spent the best part of two days banging my head against a brick wall while trying to figure it out.
My Samba server is running KUbuntu 7.10 upgraded from Kubuntu 7.04 While everything worked fine in 7.04 as soon as I upgraded to 7.10 the above problem started. The workgroup would not appear in Kubuntu or using smb:/ in konqueror. The server could not be seen by the windows computers on the network. I *finally* found how to stop the problem although I don't have the technical expertise to say what is causing it. My local network consists of the Ubuntu server running samba and two windows PCs (XP home and Vista Home Premium). Both of those computers were being assigned addresses by DHCP from my ADSL router. When I assigned static IP addresses to both windows computers the workgroup instantly appeared on all computers. If I use DHCP on either windows computer to set a network address then the workgroup disappears. So it appears to be some sort of clash between DHCP traffic and Samba. Note: The DHCP server was still running on the ADSL router - it was only when I used DHCP on the windows computers that the problem occurred. Hopefully this is helpful to others and will give some clues to someone with my technical expertise about why the problem was happening. -- smb workgroup detection takes too long https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/73591 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
