Comment 22 for bug 356022

I'm on Precise 12.04 and was somewhat experiencing the same issue, i.e getting the "failed to retrieve shares list from server" when trying to reach SAMBA shares on my NAS (WD MyBook World Edition).

I've read and try a lot of things on this issue (among others, rearranging the order of the "name resolve" string in smb.conf), but nothing worked. Even the smbtree command was unsuccessful, as it was not retrieving any shares list. But, I was able to connect to a share by issuing the nautilus smb:// command. A the end of the day, the only thing that solved all this was to install the samba package, which was not installed by default. Since then, retrieving and connecting SAMBA shares through Nautilus work without a glitch.

Shouldn't the SAMBA package be installed by default then?