after a whole day of figuring this out i can see a win98 comp in Lin neighbourhood and i can see my linux comp in Network Neighbourhood, thing is wen i try and mount the WIn98 computer i get the error message:
load_client_codepage: filename/usr/share/samba/codepages/codepage.850 does not exist.
Connect failed
ERRSRV-ERRbadpw
SMB connection failed.
Help i feel so close to makin this work, i feel lost without it.