I am going to seem really, really, stupid when I ask this, but ...
I finally got Samba up and running, and I can see it on my Windows 98 machine. When I double click on the icon for the Linux computer, I am presented with a box that asks for a password. I never assigned any passwords?

What is this password? Can I turn it off? If I can't, how can I change it?

Thank you in advance,
oostevo

Read your posting, and I am back a couple of steps from you. Could you point me in the direction you went. I have had SAMBA up but it saw nothing and no Windows98 systems saw it ...

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Marty

Oostevo
Its great being asked for a login you've never had before isn't it! What you need to do is go to control panel, users, add user, then create an account for yourself. Make sure you're using client for ms networks as your login manager, and restart windoze. When you reboot, you need to enter your password, which is a pain if you've not had to before, and makes no difference security wise (windoze is great eh).
You then need to add the windoze username and pw as a user account on the linux box, and then add them as smb users (I do this via swat). Also set encrypt passwords to yes, and security= share. All in globals. Then when you next try to access the share, enter your user/pw and you're in.
Jim

You've given me more to look at ... Thanks

Marty, in response to your first question:

I had the same problem at first. Then I added NetBEUI and TCP/IP networking protocols, and the Linux computer strangely appeared. Make sure you have done that.

If that fails, go to Start, Run and type in \\<ip of linux computer>\ for me this was \\192.168.0.3\

Hope this helps.