check this out, I think it has to do with clear text passwords. You'll have to
either change the registry (I've done it on NT) or you can enable password
encription in Samba.
http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/textdocs/Recent-FAQs.txt
Jim Darrough wrote:
> Greetings! I am trying to allow access from a WIN98 box to my Linux machine.
> I have installed Samba, (Redhat) but when I try to access the Linux machine
> using Explorer or other means, it asks me for a password. How do I override
> that?
>
> Regards, Jim Darrough