Subject: Win < - > LiNuX Network?

OK, Now That I've fixed some of my other problems on my own, i want to start the huge task of enabling a local network!
 
OK, before I re-installed Mandrake, my Windows Machine found my Linux Machine, but now, it does not and when I run "samba start".  It starts fine, but when it type "samba stop" SMB says OK, and NMB says "FAILED"!
 
However, when I acctaully got it working the last time I had mandrake working, it asked for a password, but none of them worked?  is this something to do w/ encrypted passwords, if someone here has acctually created a LAN w/ a Windows machine, could u please help me configure my network?  maybe, send me chunks of the samba.conf file, that set config it; also, relating to the problem w/ the password login, is that something to do w/ the samba users conf file?
 
2nd Q:
how do i access the my window's share via linux?  what is the name of the program I use to "browse" the network?  I have never tried accessing windows via linux!
 
Thanks!
 
-Julien
 

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