Samba Samba!

[Donn]

(Second send; kmail is suffering to and from gmail and I can't be sure this 
went to the list)
Lo,
I took a stab, just now, at this samba lark and (like the last few times over 
a couple of years) that I have tried it, I only get so far and grind to a 
halt.

I followed a thread on the ubuntu forums and on the Kubuntu side of things it 
all goes swimmingly. 
[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202605]

On XP Home I set my interface to WINS (whatever the heck that is) and reboot 
the machine, all per the thread's info. After that I try to map a network 
drive and I enter the folder (\\myhostname\Myfiles) and hit Finish. This is 
where the problem happens, it asks me for a username and password. 

Now, I had set that up (I thought) on Kubuntu to be 'donn' and 'ok' (just to 
test things), but whatever I enter in that window does nothing. It flashes 
away for a microsecond and comes right back again. I have tried changing the 
password (back on Kubuntu with smbpasswd to emulate variously, my Kubuntu 
password and my Windows password (blank) but nothing works.

Anyone have any clues?

/d