Trying to get access to a SAMAB share from Win XP pro SP2. The share is on a mac running 10.2.4 and SAMBA 2.2.3a. It worked perfectly for like a week. Now all of a sudden in the XP boxes are using the username "MachineName/Guest", where machine name is the NetBIOS name of the OSX box. Its greyed out.

Apparently a number of people have had this problem judging from my initial google results. However the only solution i found was to try Mapping a network drive instead of creating a network place. I tried that i get the same thing, however there is a link to "log on as a different user". Wheni click that i can enter a username of my choosing and a password. But after doign that it searches for a few seconds then brings back the logon screen with "MachineName/Guest" entered and it greyed out...

Ive also tried:

- Deleting the NetBIOS name altogether from Sharepoints interface
- Using USER instead of SHARE security
- Loggin on as every USER on the MAC
- Using no password for the Guest account
- Deleting and then creating the guest account again
- Changing the "guest" account to "Guest" and "GUEST"

Im totally stumped since it was just working the other day and i havent installed any updates on any of the machines.

Any thoughts... or better yet - Solutions??? :-)

Also slightly related.... Sometimes when i go to mount the windows machine we are using as a makeshift server, it cant find it.... the connection progress bar jsut keeps going but never connects. This happens often but not all the time. I can see the machine in my workgroup list from the connect to server menu...