Installing Samba via metapackage-installer...solves the problem...but still needs to be fixed in the default install, obviously.
Installing Samba from the meta-installer did not solve this problem on my network. smbtree can see the shares just fine. I can connect with direct addressing no problem, but browsing is broke.
'direct addressing' meaning you need to type 'smb://[ip address]' or 'smb://[share name]' in Thunar path window (or whatever it's called)?
yes, except I forgot I installed gvfs-backends while doing that. connectshares scripts work fine by default install.