All right, in Samba, under Preferences and Server Settings and under the Security Tab there's a drop down box for Authentication Mode. From reading the documentation on it, I need to put this on User for Windows machine to access it...and it works this way. But everytime I reboot (which isn't all too often) it reverts back to Share. So then I'm forced to go back in and change it back. Is there something in the smb.conf file I need to correct this or is this some Security setting? I know how to get it back and all, it's just becoming a pain to have to keep changing it back.

two thoughts come to mind immediately.
1. Are you running the latest stable release of SAMBA
2. Have you tried modifying the samba.conf (I think thats the file name) directly, rather than through the web interface.

Cheers
Jo

Well I am running FC2 and it's very much up to date so I think I am safe there. I have looked through the conf file but not sure what I'd need to change.

You'd want to look for the section that resembles this:

Here's how mines looks now:

Please bear with me, I'm still a newbie at this.

There's no security= line somewhere below that?

If not, just add it. Maybe that's why it keeps reverting to the default (which I think might well be share-level security). Of course, it might also be that you aren't logging into Samba-swat or Webmin (whatever you're using), with the root password, and your changes aren't being saved (hint: you have to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf as root, too ).

You might want to swing by the Samba website and read the documentation, as well.

Hope this helps.