Comment 118 for bug 207072

I am running Ubuntu 8.04.1 32 bit and this bug hit me suddenly this morning. Up till now, I was able to browse my office networks smb shares without difficulty. As of this morning, none of them work. All 4 of my ubuntu workstations are affected. I have saved bookmarks to places on the network that stopped working. I found that I had to change the network path, for example, from smb://server/pictures to smb://10.0.0.5/pictures that finally got all of them working again. I am still unable to browse my network with the Places > Network GUI. It shows the network and then the workgroup, but nothing beyond that. It eventually times out. I was not planning to upgrade my office machines to 8.10, preferring to stay with the LTS version, but if I need to upgrade to fix this, I will. This is a nasty regression that needs to be fixed.