I've set up samba on my 5.0-RELEASE machine to share out a common directory, as well as home directories for other connecting machines.
I've set up a user account with the same user/pass combo on both the server and my other network machines.
"testparm" processes everything and comes back with "Loaded services file OK." I can query my other network machines (Windows) from this box using "smbclient -L <hostname>", and I can even browse their contents with "smbclient \\\\<hostname>\\<sharename>".
But when I try to connect to my FBSD box from the Windows machines, I'm prompted for a user/pass, and when I enter it, it just keeps prompting me for it endlessly and won't let me in.
What am I doing wrong, and how would one test this connection?
Thanks.

Sounds like samba isn't set up for clear text authentication.

How do I fix that?
I couldn't find anything in "man smbpasswd" (note that "man smbpasswd | grep clear" returns null).
Thanks.