No Windows Shares in Finder

Hello,
We have several Windows boxes and a linux server (which runns smb) and three macs here. On the "old" macs (10.6.8 and 10.5.8) all windows shares are shown in Finder, but on the MBPro where we installed 10.7 no more windows shares are there. OS X Version is now 10.7.4.
I already deleted com.apple.finder.plist but after a reboot still no windows (or smb) shares in finder. However if i connect via Cmd+K it works
BTW the other macs (via afp) are shown in Finder.
WINS setting is set to the correct workgroup, well except that the characters are all UPPERCASE while on all other boxes in the network they are LOWERCASE, but i can´t change this.
Everytime i try to write them LOWERCASE for the workgroup it automaticaly changes back to UPPERCASE again. Could this have something to do with it?
Thanks,
t.

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Starting to compactâ¦
Reclaiming free spaceâ¦
Finishing compactionâ¦
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[zig:/Volumes/felix] felix%
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