The Samba issue

[Helder Terra]

  Ever since Lucid version (and now Maverick) I simply cannot run samba 
properly. I've installed Samba, Samba4, smbclient, everything's Ok, 
except that I can't get Samba to work. It doesn't recognize other 
machines (Linux and Windows) on the same network and shows no computers 
on the workgroup.

It won't open the system menu samba icon (it bounces for a while, then 
nothing) and won't start in the terminal neither.

Any ideas why?

Best regards,

Helder Terra