I've received some requests to provide proper documentation on pyNeighborhood. I'm working on it. But before I release it is possible to read some general notes here:
http://grumpymole.blogspot.com/2006/11/xubuntu-browsing-samba-shares-with.html
For Xubuntu users:
http://grumpymole.blogspot.com/2007/02/easy-samba-browsing-with-xubuntu-feisty.html