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Hello Everyone

I'm hoping someone can help me solve a problem and perhaps clear up some confusion , I have a home network (MSHOME)that consist of 3 PCs (2 Linux PCs and a Windows PC) and a freenas server since upgrading to Mint 12 I cant access my home network (MSHOME), when I browse networks I get 2 workgroups Emegra (PC icon) host) & Windows Network (Network icon),if I open Emegra it shows any local folders I've set to share I can open them and that seems ok, when I open windows Network it shows 2 workgroups (Workgroup & MSHOME) if I open Workgroup it shows Emegra once again I can open and access my shared files no problem, however if I try to open MSHOME nothing happens, I can connect to any client on the network by clicking on "Connect to Server" and typing in the IP address but I Can't get them listed on any workgroup, I installed Gigolo and I can access all the clients from there and bookmark them but that doesn't completely solve my problem because althouh Gigolo will connect to any network / shared folder I set it to it doesn't solve the MSHOME problem which means ie that I cannot connect to a network printer on the windows machine, Without going into too much detail the other Linux PC (running Peppermint)which I put together as an experiment before changing over to Linux works perfectly, I appolgise for the length of this post but I'm just trying to give you all as much relevent information as I can in the hope somene can solve this problem for me.

Many Thanks

Graeme