as you search those howto's remember that win2k and winnt (winxp for that matter) use encrypted passwords and need usernames to access shares whereas win98/95/me just allowed any old schmuck to dive into their shares. I never exactly got the sharing authentication going on with winxp machines on my home network, so I just removed passwords on those computers and then I was able to access them with just a username in the url smb://USERNAME:@WORKGROUP/COMPUTER/SHARE
The part after the : is for a password, but like I said I could never get the passwords to authenticate. I think linux was sending it plain text or something, but you could always remove the passwords from your user accounts or enable the guest account and use that. Just a couple options, you sure have enough reading to help you out the rest of the way, but at least now you know what it is you are looking for.
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