Reset File Sharing authentication entries

On a OSX.6 client I have connected to a OSX.6 server.
The client remembers name and password I have used to mount the volume.
I want to delete these entries in order to begin the connection with another user/password.
I have deleted the entry in Key Chain Access, but still a new connection does not ask me a new authorization.
What files/prefs else do I need to delete?

Thanks for the link biovizier, that was enough information for me to figure it out :)!!!
HERE ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS:
(1) click on Finder and then "go to folder", type in /var/db/dslocal/nodes
(2) then do a get info on the "Default" folder and allow EVERYONE read+write access
(3) do the same for the the following two folders, CONFIG and SHAREPOINTS
(4) do a get info on the Public.plist file, and allow EVERYONE read+write access
(5) rename the Public.plist to "username's Public Folder.plist"
(6) open this file in a text editor (I used SubEthaEdit), and change every instance where it just says "Public" to "username's Public Folder"
(7) save the file, and change the permissions of that file and all of the folders above back to "no access" for the EVERYONE group
Close and Restart File Sharing in System Preferences .... and you're done!
It'll still say the folder being shared is "Public" inside of System Preferences, but when users connect, it'll say "username's Public Folder"

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Thanks for the link biovizier, that was enough information for me to figure it out :)!!!
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Was recently trying to network my macbook with my brothers Vista laptop.
Followed a few websites, could get his pc to access my mac but couldn't access the PC.
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All right, so normally OS X hashes user passwords using a salted SHA1 encryption. It uses shadowing so that you can't obtain the actual hash value using "% nidump passwd".
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Thanks biovizier. You're absolutely right, deleting the extra text after ";shadowHash;" and then reseting the password for the user's account does seem to force OS X to rehash the password using SHA1.
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Log in as Root and open the /private/var/db/shadow/hash folder. You'll see files with long, weird names. You'll also see an XML file (with the extension *.state) for each of the files with long, weird names. The XML file contains several tags that tell OS X information about the hashed password - things like when it last logged on, when it was created, how many times login failed, etc.
We're interested in the other files - the ones that don't end in ".state"
To verify that SHA1 is being used, open the long, weird files in textedit. You should see something like this: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There should be a few more zeros; I've cut some out here to save space.
What should NOT exist, is the following:
57Y083D243109VGR45Z4B65812R8M087H65HJ8OK95T89L8JHL9000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000059G31HJ75BR54210P07Y57BC57094D643H78K8765L98C6X00000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000
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