Ever since I installed Ubuntu Linux Hardy 8.04 I’m facing problems in browsing Windows shares with samba.
Even though I can see the Windows Group and the Windows Hosts when I click on them I only get an empty window. No shares are listed.

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In the following tutorial you are going to fine tweak your Ubuntu Linux setup in order to speed up the boot process as well as the startup time of some frequently used applications.

use bootchart to profile boot times and bootlenecks easily through an intuitive image graph
install with
sudo apt-get install bootchart

then you’ll get a graph in [...]

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