Win XP vs AFP

Question

So all the Macs can connect to server 10.4 using SMB via the Connect to Server, but none of the WinXP desktops can.
Additionally, this series of messages in the log are repeated over and over:
[2009/04/25 05:10:44, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.9/samba/source/lib/utilsock.c:write_socketdata(446)
writesocketdata: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
[2009/04/25 05:10:44, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.9/samba/source/lib/utilsock.c:writesocket(471)
write_socket: Error writing 268 bytes to socket 6: ERRNO = Broken pipe
[2009/04/25 05:10:44, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.9/samba/source/lib/utilsock.c:sendsmb(663)
Error writing 268 bytes to client. -1. (Broken pipe)
Any idea of what may be causing this, and any ideas of how to fix so the XP folks can connect as usual?
Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

You need to use the Terminal, as a general but very important rule, don't edit anything in hidden folders via the Finder/GUI apps. If nothing else you seriously risk b0rking file-permissions of key files &/or binaries that must have their correct permissions preserved.
The file is in /etc
which is actually a link (sort of "alias") to /private/etc
and there you will find smb.conf
Back it up FIRST before editing it, via:
cd /etc
sudo cp smb.conf smb.conf.bak
and this is a good opportunity to learn shell/command-line editors.
Start with nano but be sure to use
nano -w
to preserve line wraps.