Easy filesharing setup for local network

Hi folks,
I'm currently trying to enable easy filesharing for my local network.
Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a Laptop and it just worked.
But I can't get filesharing to work under Arch (Chakra 64bit Beta 4) witch kde4.
Samba is installed, the daemon is running... i cant figure out why it doesn't work.
When I open Dolphin and go to Network I can see all the PCs in the local Network.
After opening i can see 3 things (when looking at the system i am currently working on):
<hostname>[00:21:5d:72:b4:84] (has kind of a Networksymbol)
<hostname> (has a shell-symbol)
SFTP File Transfer on <hostname> (folder symbol with world in front of it)
when clicking on the first one with the strange numbers, dolphin crashes.
I dont know why! what i would like to have is a real symble filesharing for my local network i dont mind whether its nfs oder samba or whatever.
thanks for help!

We only want to connect/browse the server locally , so I'm a bit stumped on the need to set up DNS.
Ideally i would like to browse the server directly by entering the IP address (and port number if need) followed by the site name.ie:
By default, virtual hosting setup via Server Admin use name-based virtual hosting, meaning that Apache looks at the hostname in the request to work out which site configuration to use. That's why you need DNS - a way to map the numerous names to the various sites you've configured, e.g.:
http://site1.server.local/ -> site 1
http://site2.server.local/ -> site 2
(where both site1.server.local and site2.server.local resolve to this server's IP address)
It is possible to do port-based virtual hosting (where you include the port number in the URL) - to do this you leave the hostname blank in Server Admin and ensure that each site has a different port number configured.
http://server1.local:8001/ -> site 1
http://server1.local:8002/ -> site 2
There's no easy way to map URI elements to different sites, e.g.:
http://server1.local/site1 -> site 1
http://server1.local/site2 -> site 2
This can be done by editing Apache's configuration directly, but you can't do this via Server Admin (unless you really are just mapping to different directories and not entirely different sites).

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Background
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