Can't mount 10.6.8 Server SMB share from Windows

Actually, I can mount it...I just can't read or write it.
So I'm running Snow Leopard Server on this Intel-based Mac Mini. I have a group of users who want to be able to have a common area to store files. "Easy", I think. "Just create a folder, give it the appropriate permissions for the group, and make it a share point in the SMB configuration."
So I do all this-- through the Server Admin UI, BTW.
I create the folder. I give the specified group read and write access; everybody else gets nothing.
I make the folder a share point and ensure that SMB sharing it turned on.
Then I try to mount it from my Windows machines. I create a new network place, but I'm never asked for a user name and password. So the network place is created fine, but any attempt to open it or drag something to it fails because I'm not logged into the server.
So the question is:
Why isn't my server asking users to authenticate?
And:
How can I make it start doing this?

Hehe... Servers are tricky things for sure.
It sounds like you're expecting to have users log in from outside your network, but that you're testing from within? Is this the case?
If your users are trying to log in from outside the local network of the server, then you'll need to ensure that the correct port forwarding is set up on your firewall.
Next thing I'd try... Simplify your share to ensure that the problem isn't with your group set up. Eliminate all the ACL's associated with it.
Add one sole user to the ACL, give it read and write, and try to log in using that credential.
Ensure that the POSIX Permissions are set to default. (administrator should be the owner, staff should be group, read and writable only by the owner, everyone else gets read only)
If that works, remove that user, add a group to the ACL and try and log in using a user that's listed in the new group specified.
Perhaps if you supplied a little more info about your server and how it's connected to it's network. What it's roles are etc. we might be able to give a little more insight.
HTH
-Graham

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