What is a good app that I can use to browse shared folders on a Windows/Linux network in the Gnome environment? I used Smb4k in KDE, but I have switched to gnome cause' it seems to be more stable, and I need something that will do the equivalent of smb4k in gnome.

I am running gnome 2.8 on debian sarge, and don't suggest I try sid as this is a work machine--no meltdowns.

In theory you can use nautilus to browse your smb shares, see gnome help 7.8.2 "to access network places". For me none of the stuff in the help seemed to be present in the nautilus UI. "Add network place object"??? In any case, nautilus does not seem to allow you to pass username/passwords to windoze boxen.

You might try xfce4. It has a real nice network browser that actually works.

If you ever get nautilus to work, please post.

Cheers

I am also running gnome 2.8 with Nautilus 2.8.2. I found in Nautilus that you can go to file > connect to server and there are all kinds of options including Windows share, webdav, ssh, ftp and a few other kind of connections. I can't test it out right now because my college LAN has windows share ports blocked, but at least now I know where to go.

I see what you are referring to. It doesn't make any sense--the options are:
server (ok)
share (ok)
folder (what's that?)
username (windows or unix?)
name to use for connection (eh?)

This thing is just a front end for smbclient, the syntax of which is:
So you can see what the arguments to smbclient are, and are not. In any case I tried it with every combination of input that I could think of, and AFAIK the process just died.

If you are using mandrivel, er, mandriva, you can use the MCC to browse and mount windows shares. Then the mounted windoze shares become a transparent part of your file system. I used to run mandriva and it always worked for me.