CAN'T SEE SHARED FOLDERS FROM THE PC ON MY MAC SINCE SNOW LEOPARD UPGRADE

same problem i cant connect from mac to windows anymore. I had smb setup and that doesnt work either.

Try turning Snow Leopard's firewall off if it's on.

I have the same problem. I have turned Computer Browser off on my Vista Ultimate for the MacBook to see the Vista shared in finder, once upgraded to Snow Leopard it has quit working. I still can go to the Go and connect to server. I want to be able not to have to do that.

I had it all working fine under Leopard but now I've upgraded to SNOW Leopard I can't see my 2 Windows Vista PCs in Finder under Shared. I can access them using connect to server but that is a long term pain in the butt. Anyone else have this problem? I have reverted to Leopard (Thanks goodness for Time Machine even if it is slowwwwwwwwww!!)
Anyone got a solution for this??

Your problem is one existing for many under Leopard; it now exists for many under SL. About the best you are likely to be able to do is to use "connect to server" when you want to access a Windows machine. After accessing, the machine may or may not appear under "Shared." It undoubtedly will disappear from "Shared" in a short while. Sorry to be the carrier of bad tidings.

Message was edited by: donv (The Ghost)

Im using just like that; First of all I never download anything from my Mac. Im always using my Vista-PC for downloading. I mean; Vista-PC for my internet machine. I have a share folder on my Vista-PC Desktop. Snow Leopard doesnt see this folder on own Network area. But I can see just like that. I using same internet with wireless.

Click to "Go" menu choose "Connect server" and write this;
smb://your IP then click "Connect" button.

When I want to connect my share folder on Vista I always doing just like that.
Try this one...

In System Preferences > Network > Advanced > WINS, be sure that your Mac workgroup is the same as that of your Vista machine, presumably "workgroup."

In System Preferences > Sharing > Options, be sure that SMB sharing is activated.

Message was edited by: donv (The Ghost)

Your problem is probably the same one I described in my thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2133962&tstart=0

The problem in my case, seems to be that the SL mac is not setting itself as the master browser, so when a Windows PC is switched on, it doesn't update that computer in the finder sidebar.

You can see if this is the case, by opening terminal, and typing:

nmblookup -M -- -

If it comes back with "name_query failed to find name _MSBROWSE_#01" then you've got the same problem as me. With Leopard, my mac would report back as the master browser.

It's got nothing to do with the firewall (I've tried turning mine off ,to no avail). Also, my workgroup is correct, and smb sharing is turned on for the user.