unable to browse network - FC15

[gurutech]

I just installed FC15 from scratch, and everything seems to be working OK, except that I cannot view other computers on my local network. I didn't have any problems when I was running FC13.

I am able to get on the internet, and view the website I configured on this machine, but anything "network" related I cannot see.

I go to Places, then Network, and get the error:

Could not open location 'network://'
DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

If I go to Places, then Computer, I click Browse Network, and can see "Windows Network", so I click that, then I see my domain name, but when I click that, it just times out and gives me the error:

Unable to mount location
Failed to retrieve share list from server

I tried running the SELinux Troubleshooter, but get an error:

Opps, sealert hit an error!

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sealert", line 692, in <module>
    run_as_dbus_service(username)
  File "/usr/bin/sealert", line 112, in run_as_dbus_service
    app = SEAlert(user, dbus_service.presentation_manager, watch_setroubleshootd=True)
  File "/usr/bin/sealert", line 326, in __init__
    from setroubleshoot.browser import BrowserApplet
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setroubleshoot/browser.py", line 46, in <module>
    import report.io.GTKIO
ImportError: No module named GTKIO

(And yes, "oops" is spelled wrong in the error message! lol)

Everything is up to date, and I have verified that Samba and Samba client are installed.

Any ideas?

---------- Post added 4th July 2011 at 12:19 AM ---------- Previous post was 3rd July 2011 at 09:51 PM ----------

update: OK, I am now able to get past the "Could not open location 'network://'" error - turns out the "smb" service was not running....

But now when I open Network, I am presented with MYGROUP, WORKGROUP, and my domain name (which is my actual "workgroup" as I don't have a domain). I cannot get to any of them - get the same timeout error as above.

[gurutech]

Anyone have any ideas on this one? I'm stumped....

[gurutech]

No one has any suggestions???

[unamanic]

Firewall? Ensure at least Samba Client is allowed through.

[gurutech]

Yeah, that was the first thing I checked. Samba, and Samba-client are allowed.

[glennzo]

Put the ip addresses of the networked computers into /etc/hosts. See if that makes a difference.

[gurutech]

IP address in hosts file didn't help.

[gurutech]

in process of a complete reinstall.... will post back what my results are. So far I am getting a message that the system could not open a share list from the server. Don't have samba installed yet, or allowed through firewall. Doing updates now. Will install samba and do firewall when complete.

[gurutech]

ok, have reinstalled completely, updated, installed samba, httpd, vsftpd, and xrdp - everything works fine except samba.

I have done "chkconfig smb on", and can see my "workgroup", however when I click on it, I get this error:

Unable to mount location
Failed to retrieve share location from server

Any ideas??

---------- Post added at 07:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:20 AM ----------

Update: Disabled firewall completely, set NIC to get DHCP address only - hardcoded known good DNS servers (one of which is my router, hopefully this would allow browsing on the network)

But nothing has worked.

[gurutech]

Any ideas? Still giving me a problem with this. Just got FTP fixed, now have this and http to fix.

[ganesanrajesh]

Hi,
Me having same problem. No luck yet! :-(