Windows Network Problems...

I have a friend and his network is all windows machines except for one Mac for video editing. They need to be able to transfer the video created to a drive on the network or directly to the computer that is going to use it. The G5 is on the internet and can see the other machines but can't access them, it gives me an error saying, "can't find the original". The windows machines can't see the G5 (and yes it has windows sharing on). I've tried to help them but I'm at a loss on this one. My network is all Macs and only 4 windows machines so for me it's windows that have to survive on my network .
There windows machines log onto a domain. Could that be an issue?
Thanks
Dave
Dual G5 2.5   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

I have a very similar issue at my workplace. I'm one of two designers using OS X, the rest of the office is on Windows.
I was having the issue discussed above. I would go through the networks in a finder window and locate the server folder I needed to get into and try to log in but I kept getting "can't find original."
I then went through the Connect to Server via 'Go' in Finder. I typed in the smb//DNSname/sharename and the login window would pop up. But when I try to log in, almost immediately it says I have the wrong name or password. I've checked it a dozen times and my password works through Mail and Entourage, but not through a direct network connection to the server.
I found a program from http://www.thursby.com/ called ADmitMac that supposedly corrects Mac OSX to Windows PC networking problems. There's a full article about it at http://www.macguild.org/reviews/review204.html.
I have not tried it considering we're a small start up and the program can get expensive compared to the cost of the Mac OS system price.
Can anyone verify that this program can correct the problem or is there another (cheaper) solution?
Could it be a setting on the windows server itself?
hope someone can help
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

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