Chris Allen wrote:
One point to note is that if you are not seeing the Linux machine in the 'network neighborhood' window, then you are not getting as far as worrying about passwords - the password problem manifests itself by you being repeatedly asked for a password when you enter a shared resource...
This is what I have noted, It appears that either Netbios browsing is not working, I would look for the nmbd.log and see if that contains anything of note, or there is some other distinct problem. Jenny can you check that your windows box has client for microsoft networks installed? There are to many possible problems for me to guess at without seeing the problem (We had the same problem at work recently and even with access to both machines it took the best part of a day to fix).
Adam