Okay, here is my problem. I have a PIII/667 GeForce2 64mb vid card with 256mb of memory. I have two harddrives a 13gb and a 40gb (my iPod has more storage). I installed Debian 3.1 sarge on the system putting everything but the home file on the 13gb drive. Everything was working fine. I had the network set up so that the Windows comp ripped all my music from iTunes to my 40gb drive in a file in my /home file.

Everything was fine except that every once in a while if I had a number of apps running it would crap out and dump me to the log in screen. So I ran the System Monitor and noticed that upon my installation I had not partitioned a swap file. Oops.

So I went back reinstalled DebSarge creating a swap partition on the 13gb drive and leaving /home and all my music on the 40gb drive. It all worked fine.

Now comes the glitch! Some how in the set up process I did not set up the network the same. Now while I can see and access the Windows box, it can only see me and cannot access me. When I try to make changes to the share properties using konqueror (right clicking, going to properties, share) it won't save my changes. It won't let me allow others to access the files that are set to share. The files even show as shared with the little plug icon.

It is getting a little frustrating as the rest of my system is running so well now, with the swap file and all.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Firstly, you need to know that you are dealing with the software called "SAMBA" here. It is typically started by a script in /etc/init.d/samba, which is accessed at the console like so: sudo /etc/init.d/samba
This will tell you what you can add at the end of the command (stop,start,restart). So, armed with this knowledge, stop samba. Then take a look at /etc/samba/smb.conf (you need to be sudo or root to edit this file). This file is what configures Samba. Big fat books have been written to cover this file. Have a look at Samba.org's documentation to understand what it does. There are also plenty of sites detailing the process (Google "configuring samba").
Also, there are error logs that tell you what is going on in the system (these logs are configured in smb.conf), they default to being in /var/log/samba. Have a look particularly for the machine name of the windows box, and any authentication problems. Most issues are caused by authentication issues, where you haven't got the same password entered in Samba as you have on the windows box (also need same user name!).
Good luck, and have fun.