Plus, since I've disabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP, no one outside the lan can access my share anyway.
Crap! I meant SMB over TCP/IP. It was really late and I didn't know what I was typing. Anyway, what I meant was that I have a software firewall blocking access to port 445. Anyway, since I'm behind a hardware firewall/router (Red Hat 9 running IPTables that my ISP has setup for the whole network with I.P. of 10.0.0.1) accessing my computer from the net using an inbound connection is pretty much impossible anyway.

Cheers,
cgkanchi