Unable to connect to Windows share

I had this problem before, I have no idea how I fixed it. I cannot connect to my Windows machine via Finder any more. I hooked a printer up to that machine, shared it, decided to add a guest account for others to access it. And bam, can't connect to the Windows machines via OS X.
I've ran the network setup wiz on the machine and made sure file sharing was on. I disabled the firewall. I can connect to the machine perfectly fine via a Linux box and another Windows machine.
Finder sees the server in the server list. Clicking on it just has Finder connecting indefinitely.
Finder->Connect to Server hangs for a bit and then returns:
There was an error connecting to the server “192.168.1.156”. Check the server name or IP address, and then try again.
Mounting via the command line fails:
mount -t smbfs //[email protected]/shows shows
mount_smbfs: mount error: /Users/Giblet/Movies/shows: Broken pipe
But smbclient works and lists information just fine.
smbclient -U giblet -W workgroup -L 192.168.1.156

Yup! Thanks. But ya know what.. I'm so used to not rebooting my Macs.. Reboot fixed it. Now to figure out how to get the printer work.

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