Not seeing Windows PCs with Finder?

Question

I don't seem to be able to see any of the Windows shares in the Finder. On the network I have a Windows 2000 based PC and a Mac with a SMB share. In the Finder I only see my VNC share and a share corresponding to the personal file sharing option. Yet from the terminal if I run 'smbfind' I get:
<pre>
*=DMB
+=LMB
IP ADDR NETBIOS NAME WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION
192.168.2.3 GHOSTWALKER +\[WORKGROUP\] \[Unix] \[Samba 3.0.25b-apple]
192.168.2.4 PCPORTABLE \[WORKGROUP] \[Windows 5.0] \[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
192.168.2.101 HOMESERVER +\[SOLUS] \[Unix] \[Samba 3.0.10]
</pre>
Any ideas why I can't see my shares from the Finder and what I need to do to resolve this? Note that 'Ghostwalker' is the local computer.
Message was edited by: Andre John Mas

Answer 1

This seemed to have done the job and I now see the WINS settings being remembered. It discovered my other computer, but disconnecting the PC resulted it not being discovered by the finder, when I reconnected it. In the meantime the command-line tool 'findsmb' is able to work out when the PC is really disconnected and when it is connected. In comparison the Finder is being inconsistent. I would have thought these two would be using the same mechanisms, but behaviour would indicate not.