Why does the Mac OS X (10.6) Finder stop being able to connect to Windows computers?

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Published on 2010-03-16T12:35:31Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 12:46 UTC
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We have one Mac (a MacBook Pro Unibody) amongst our Windows machines which connects to the "server" (actually a Dell running Windows XP Pro) to access documents. This works just fine most of the time, but sometimes after waking from sleep, it cannot connect to any Windows computer on the network.

There are no errors (nor even any messages) in the Console application when attempting to connect either by the Finder's network browsing, nor when using the "Connect To Server" menu.

I have tried "Relaunch" on Finder, toggled File Sharing, disabled and re-enabled the Airport, but nothing makes the Mac able to connect again until I reboot it!

Other computers can connect to the machines, so it is definitely the Mac at fault.

Are there any workarounds that anyone has found? Is there perhaps a way to re-start the samba client?

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