Samba and Solaris, access slow via XP

Hi everyone,
I've new to solaris and I've installed 10, update 5. I've configured samba (very badly I believe) so that I can access my solaris box from my XP 64 computer.
Both are on a local network (connected via a Belkin router) and in the same workgroup. I can see the XP machine from solaris, but not access anything (I just get a 'cannot show contents of directory' message). This is not my main problem, since I mostly want to access the solaris system from XP (I want to set up the solaris box as a RAID Z NAS). This works to a degree. I can see and access my solaris filesystem from XP. Hurray. I have two problems:
1. I have set guest to NO, but I never get asked for a password (I've set up an account on the solaris system with a password using smbpasswd). I just get access. Why is this? I don't want a bunch of ner-do-wels skulking about my server and erasing files and such.
2. While I can stream music fine, after a minute or so, if I want to browse files from XP it stalls for about one minute (I think it is re-logging in) and while this happens any music being streamed stops. How do I stay connected and logged in? Here is my smb.conf:
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from 192.168.2.3 (192.168.2.3)
# Date: 2008/05/11 18:46:15
[global]
     socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY
     ldap ssl = no
[home]
     read only = No
     guest ok = No
     available = No
[homes]
     valid users = %S
     read only = No
     guest ok = No
As you can tell I'm pretty new to all this so you may have to dumb down your answers a little. Thanks for the help.
Cisco

Yup.....repeatable!
Delete mapped drive.
Connect via USB
Playbook shows in windows explorer as PlayBook [Pin: number] Y: being the drive that XP has mapped it to.
Then search for the PlayBook by ip address \\192.168.1.x
It shows up under workgroup by its ip address
Disconect USB cable
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