[Solved] OSX Host Ubuntu Guest and Ubuntu Samba Share

[DuhhVBox]

I have kind of a unique setup and have spent days trying to figure out the source of the problem.

First my setup:
OSX host running Vbox
WINXP guest
Ubuntu 8.10 guest
Guest Additions installed on both.
Ubuntu box (running as a samba file server)

All physical machines on my network (WINXP and OSX) can read/write to the samba shares on the physical Ubuntu box.
The guest WINXP Vbox can also read/write to the samba shares.

Heres the problem:
The guest Ubuntu Vbox cannot even see samba share at all.
Whenever I access the "Windows Network" via Nautilus, it takes a few minutes to even see my workgroup.
When I finally get to my workgroup (named STUFF) I click and after awhile it finally comes back with nothing (0 files ,0 folders)

I've installed samba in the guest Ubuntu and went through the smb.conf file and all looks ok.

Not sure if the problem is Ubuntu, Vbox, and/or Samba.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[DuhhVBox]

SOLVED:
Figured out I could browse the samba share by manually typing the IP via Nautilus.

example: "smb://192.168.1.123/Stuff/Shares"

Now all the shares on my physical Ubuntu box showed up in the Ubuntu Vbox.

But still browsing Network>Windows Network>Workgroup via Nautilus would not work.

Then I found if I edited the hosts file and mapped my samba share name to the IP, Nautilus worked correctly.

sudo gedit /etc/hosts

192.168.1.123 Stuff

I realize this is not a Vbox problem directly, but since nobody replyed to my question, mabey this will help someone else who is having similar problems.

Thanks