[Samba] Samba Newbie Question

[Kevin Barry]

I'm looking to set up Samba between a RH 8.0 computer and Win XP
machine. On the linux box when using the rpm gui interface it requests
that I install samba 2.5. I went ahead and installed version 2.7.2 but
received what seemed to signify conflicts with a ver 2.7.1. The services
running/available gui does not show samba as been available and when I
attempt to rpm uninstall the 2.7.2 samba I'm informed that it is not
installed. What should I do next?

Kevin