network file sharing help needed

[cogyfarm]

Hello, I need to know how to setup a directory on my intranet server to 
be used by any other computer on the network as a single repository of 
programs.  For example, they would be able to install Open Office to 
this folder so that there is ONE installation not 6.  I have already 
created a folder called /samba with 775 permissions and told the server 
to make it a shared network folder in "network neighborhood" but I can't 
see it from the windows machines.

Troy.