if you want something REALLY easy to use... try using Komba2 - it's a GUI for Samba and is so easy to set up even I can do it

d/l for Suse and RH from

http://zeus.fh-brandenburg.de/~schwa.../download.php3

I'm not sure if this only works with KDE or not... but if it's of any interest I'm currently using it with KDE on Mandrake 8.1 - oh and make sure you use ver 7.3