[Samba] Can connect and work with Samba share from Windows host, but "net view" returns "System error 6118"

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:18:31 -0700 (PDT)
Winfried via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 
> I can connect and read/write just fine from a remote Windows 7 host
> using the "net use z: \\linux\myshare" command, but the "net view"
> command returns the following error: "System error 6118 has occurred.
> The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available".
> 
> Any idea why Windows' Network Neighborhood is empty?
> 

Two thoughts, are they in the same workgroup ? or is a firewall in the
way ?

Rowland