SMB Sharing User?

Hello,
Since a good long while i've been working with a Macbook. Being a long term windows user i gradually took the opportunity to study on more OS's than just Windows. However, one of the few things i still havn't figured out is the SMB Sharing capability.
Let me sketch you an environment.
Leopard 10.5.5 (And somewhat below) Allows you to share folders, much like windows with policies on what a user can do in a folder et cetera.
When sharing a folder with Leopard, you go to File Sharing, toggle SMB on, and define an account you want people to use to get into the shared folder. Here, exactly lies my problem. With a guest account i am perfectly able to see the folder on a Windows computer.
Once i define a user account, let's take "Test" as a subtle one for now. The password would be easily set to "test" aswell. In the User Management interface i've defined a sharing account under the name Test.
This account will now show up at the File Sharing preference pane. I can select it, and attach permissions to it, such as "Test" may write in folder "X" but, "Everyone (also known as Guest, i suppose?)" May not see anything at all.
Once i did this, i am unable to at all get connection to the shared folder through Windows, but when i toggle "Everyone" to Read or Read/Write, i can see the folders perfectly clear once again.
My question is, How so i solve this problem. So that only an account "I" Define, may have access to the shared folder with the credentials "I" once again define?
Thanks in advance, and i hope to see your responses soon.
Rene

Can't solve your problem as we are in the middle of setting up a mac mini snow leopard server with a couple of macs (absolutely fine!) and a couple of PC's both running XP. One will connect but one won't. How do you connect/have your's set up to connect. The problem PC will see the share point in workgroups and allow to enter username and password, but won't mount the volume. so annoying!

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