Installation for a Newbie

[Matt Neimeyer]

I'm utterly new to Linux and Samba but we will be Beta Testing a Linux 
version of our product soon and so I need to learn. I've got RedHat 6.1 
installed and running and I can browse the Internet... BUT I can't get 
Samba to do what I think it should be able to do....

I've created an account on my NT Domain Server (NT 4.0 PDC SP6) for the 
NetBios name of the Linux Machine.

I've tried to log in from Samba... But it just gives me strange messages I 
don't understand... I installed Samba as a package during my Linux set up 
so I assume (and this could be the problem) that like the other packages 
it's ready to roll... I can run the various smbxxxxx programs but they 
don't seem to do anything. (Well I mean I can run them and get a list of 
possible parameters but when I try and use the parameters they error) I 
still can't see my Linux machine in Network Neighborhood... I can browse to 
the Samba Web Interface thing and make and save changes... I've even tried 
it all while logged in as ROOT... No dice.

Is there any simple How-To that can get me going? I've tried the Man Pages 
for Samba and they don't seem to help me... I've tried searching for a 
How-To and I didn't find anything I could use...

At this point I don't even know where to start or where to look... Help?

I appreciate any kind (and informative) words...

Thanks

Matt