Permissions or what!?! <: \

[Joel Hammer]

You don't really have to use !!!!! to get help. There is nothing to panic
about.
Likely, you are a new user of linux. Likely, you don't know anything about
permissions and the like, so, I would try the following:
Make up a simple smb.conf, which doesn't involve passwords:
Here is what I do for mine:
[global]
        netbios name = JHAMMER6
        server string = Samba %v Your Server
        security = SHARE
        guest account = ftp
        read only = No
        guest ok = Yes

[public]
        comment = Root directory
        path = /
        create mask = 0766    

I think this will let anyone log on to your samba server as a user called
ftp.
ftp has few privileges on your machine. You could make the guest account
some regular user name, just to try things out.
Anyway, you could make the path = some directory like /SambaShares and 
chmod 777 /SambaShares (make sure /SambaShares exists).
That should allow everyone to read, write, execute, etc. off the drive.
Naturally, you will want to arrange things to be more secure in the future.
Joel