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[Tim Bernhard <ohiomoto@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Fabio Silva <fabio_floripa@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I decided to left lubuntu and GO back to regular ubuntu. Is better wait
> then never do! Lubuntu is much faster than ubuntu, light and clean.. I loved
> but I cant make my usb work, Windows network does not work either. I tried
> many tutorials but no really help was given. Nautilus "almost worked"...
> I thought Lubuntu was the solution but it is more or less like Arch linux.
> It is just a distro that left many stuffs out to be lightweight, If you need
> something you must put by yourself.
>
> Unfortunately for people like me (beginner) it is a pain in the a**. I
> guess lubuntu will be even better than ubuntu when few thing work out of the
> box as network, USB sticks etc..
>
> I wish I knew how to programming to help the community but I don't :(
>

I had a similar issue.  Did you try this:

Network File Browsing with PCManFM
>
> There has been reports of PCManFM having problems displaying networked
> drives and folders correctly. This is not actually a bug but a feature where
> it allows the user to decide if this package is required for them. If you
> would like to use PCManFM to browse networked drives and folders this is
> easily accomplished by simply installing the package gvfs-backends:
>
>  sudo apt-get install gvfs-backends
>
>

It worked for me.