[Samba] trouble with password authentication fron Windows to Linux

[ross reyes]

I've seen many posts on this subject and several days researching but have not understood much of 
what I'm reading.    In over my head.

Any help appreciated.

Here are facts....

1.   I set up the samba on linux box.
2.   connected two windows 98SE machines 
3.   All machines connect to router 198.168.0.1, and use DHCP
4.   I set up a public directory on Linux box
5.   I can browse with Network Neighborhood & see all machines.   
6.   If I try to access the /home/user directory I'm prompted for a password and the connection is refused with
password incorrect.   
7.   I'm sure the smbpassword, linux user, windows user passwords & usernames are all the same.
8.  I use encrypted = yes for passwords on smb.conf

I checked my smb.log file and it says thus....
 

[2002/03/01 23:23:37, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(470)
  smb_vwv[2]=2 (0x2)
[2002/03/01 23:23:37, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(470)
  smb_vwv[3]=1 (0x1)
[2002/03/01 23:23:37, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(475)
  smb_bcc=30
[2002/03/01 23:23:37, 10] lib/util.c:dump_data(2879)
  [000] 00 5C 5C 4E 41 5A 41 52  45 54 48 5F 33 5C 47 41  .\\NAZAR ETH_3\GA
[2002/03/01 23:23:37, 10] lib/util.c:dump_data(2887)
  [010] 49 4C 52 45 59 45 53 00  3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 00        ILREYES. ?????.
[2002/03/01 23:23:37, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(448)
  switch message SMBtconX (pid 3139)
[2002/03/01 23:23:37, 4] smbd/reply.c:reply_tcon_and_X(302)
  Got device type ?????
[2002/03/01 23:23:37, 2] smbd/service.c:make_connection(268)
  Invalid username/password for gailreyes
[2002/03/01 23:23:37, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(138)
  error packet at line 163 cmd=117 (SMBtconX) eclass=2 ecode=2
[2002/03/01 23:23:37, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(459)
  size=35
  smb_com=0x75
  smb_rcls=2
  smb_reh=0
  smb_err=2
  smb_flg=128
  smb_flg2=1
[2002/03/01 23:23:37, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(465)
  smb_tid=65535
  smb_pid=9691
  smb_uid=100
  smb_mid=31233
  smt_wct=0

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