Can't browse to Mac from networked PCs

These network problems have only occurred since upgrading from Panther to Leopard OSx.
I have multiple PCs running Win98 and XP and 1 G5 mac, networked through a netgear WGT634u router. The router shares an attached USB drive I've named Thor.
Before upgrading from Panther to Leopard the network worked perfectly. Since upgrading I have the following problem ONLY with the MAC.
1. Thor shows as a network drive. When I try to connect, it now requires a username & password. There is NO provision for setting a username/password for access to the drive other than for FTP. I can't logon as a guest - Connection Failed "This file server does not allow Guest access". Access to the drive has never required this before. The PCs can see and access perfectly! I can access using FTP CMD K.
Is there a way of forcing the mac to ignore the username/password the way it use to before?
2. All PCs show up on the MAC and can be successfully browsed BUT whilst the MACs WINS name (G5workstation) shows up on the PCs, when selected it errors with "G5 workstation not accessible".
I can use FTP again to connect BUT my preference is to use SMB. It appears to be rejected or timed out waiting for username/password authorisation. Could this be the problem?
Any help or leads would be most appreciated.

Just been trying to check on issues with samba and have noticed the following in the logs:
[2008/07/31 20:42:08, 1, pid=635] /SourceCache/samba/samba-187.7/samba/source/lib/utiltdb.c:tdblog(662)
tdb(unnamed): tdbopenex: spinlocks no longer supported
[2008/07/31 20:42:08, 1, pid=635] /SourceCache/samba/samba-187.7/samba/source/lib/utiltdb.c:tdblog(662)
tdb(unnamed): tdbopenex: spinlocks no longer supported
If i run the following in terminal:
% smbclient -U% -L localhost
tdb(unnamed): tdbopenex: spinlocks no longer supported
tdb(unnamed): tdbopenex: spinlocks no longer supported
tdb(unnamed): tdbopenex: spinlocks no longer supported
tdb(unnamed): tdbopenex: spinlocks no longer supported
name_query: Realloc failed.
tdb(unnamed): tdbopenex: spinlocks no longer supported
And if I try:
% sudo serveradmin status smb
sudo: serveradmin: command not found
OR
% sudo sharing -l
Password:
sudo: sharing: command not found
Can anyone explain whats happening here!
It would appear that the samba server is NOT starting due some error. There are NO Problems browsing from the mac to other PCs or now the Netgear WGT634u fileserver.

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