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Advanced Network Neighborhood Browser and Samba Share Mounting Utility

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Trouble Shooting

Browsing the Network

Problem: The browser widget always stays empty.
Problem: The browser widget stays empty when SUSE's firewall is running.
Problem: When using SELinux, the workgroup/domain only contains the master browser.
Problem: When opening a (certain) Windows server, its shares are not displayed.
Problem: Special characters are not displayed correctly.

Mounting and Unmounting Shares

Problem [Smb4K, version < 1.0.0]: Mounting a share fails without any error message being displayed. The share is only shown for a few seconds and then vanishes.