The smart man always waits for confirmation before becoming sarcastic :p

I couldn't resist. :D

I know its hard, but I learned from having more PC guys around thatn mac guys, and especially bigger guys... So you stay quiet until it blows up in their face :D

I understand. You learn more from failure than from success. Still...

I guess sometimes you just have to admit defeat and accept the fact that Windows is not the root of all evil and that sometimes there may be other factors involved that you just can't see. Just because someone is relatively new to the world of Mac it doesn't mean they don't know a helluva lot about Windows. Yes the machines are on the same workgroup (We do not use a domain and the PC is not set up to use a domain), and the PC name IS less that 13 chars, there is no info that shouldn't be there, everything on the PC side of things seems to be set up the way I would expect it to be. As for the Mac, AFAIK everything is (on the surface) fine there as well. I guess the only way to get this sorted is to reinstall Mac OS and see if the problem persists then.

Believe it or not, this isn't a Mac vs PC thing, although I admit that experience has led me to believe that when there's a problem and there's a PC around, it's probably to blame.

The fact is though, nothing you've shown us indicates it's the server, in this case the Mac.
If one client can log in and one cannot, the most likely cause is a problem with the client that can't. Yes, there are other possibilities, but the odds are overwhelmingly in favor of it being the client.

Did you check the tcp/ip settings on both clients?
And have you tried swapping ethernet cables? - er, scratch that. It works on one client on the same machine. That indicates it's a software issue on that machine.

For once I'm happy to see that there is actually an agreement on the fact that windows does not entirely ***** Personnaly I find that the best thing on a network is a mix of OS as it makes the general system more flexible (because you are forced to with lots of different OSs) and also more secure in the sense that you will very rarely see all systems affected by the same issue at the same time.

Entirely? No. I like the... er, I'll have to think on that one, but there must be something about it that isn't horrible. :D

Ooh! I found one! I like the ability to set a tasks priority from the Task Manager. I wish the Activity monitor had that. I know, it's not much, but hey, it's not easy to find good parts!

If you want a good sarcastic reason for windows... It diverts hacker and virus wirter attention away from the mac platform :p :D

If that were true, there'd be at least one decent Mac virus. Think of the noteriety gained by being the first!
;)

Well I think this one can finally be laid to rest. I got fed up of trying to find a solution and decided to reinstall the Mac. Set up the two user accounts in question as before and surprise surprise, everyone can browse the shares from Windows. I don't know what had happened on the Mac but it was, as I thought, a problem with the Mac and nothing to do with Windows. A lesson for us all! Windows isn't always to blame! (Usually perhaps, but not always!)

Well a virus may be nast, but I did like the guy who thought of punishing illegal software downloadeds on LimeWire and other ptop networks when a file was posted stating it was Office 2004 and it actaully was a shell script that simply ran rm -rf ~ on the users machine..> This was to pushing the msot gulible of users since the file was only 400ks... Who in their right mind would think Office 2004 was 400ks ??? I found that one amusing as it only targeted people who were doing something illegal to start with...