Mac suddenly demands password when connecting from a pc

Hey, something strange happened. I got myself an external drive I wanted to share on a mixed network, so I created a share. When I tried to access it from a pc (XP), I got a password prompt, something that had never happened before.
I thought it may be a problem with the drive beeing external, so I created another share, this time on the same drive I alreday had two working ones. Same thing happened.
Then I deleted one of the working shares and re-created it and again there was the password prompt.
I never set a password because I wanted guests to be able to access these shares.
So, any idea what I could do?
P.S. I'm using SharePoints to create shares.

That's part of my problem. Before the last couple of OS updates remote connecting was mindless. One would get a login window with the options of "guest" and "registered user". I'm finding that the window doesn't always come up and most of the time when it does, the "guest" option fails every time. Using the registered user login you gets the whole user directory and everything in it.
Remote connectivity has taken a sad turn lately and this surprises me because of the Mac model of universal connectivity. I hope that we can get back to the days of mindless and dependable interconnectivity.
G4 FW800   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   Totally Stuffed/Max'd Out with lots of great toys.

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