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Really, the best way is just to create the share and allow access to it by a certain group. &nbsp;You can create a new group for this and add each of the users who are to have access to the share to that group. &nbsp;Unless you have NT on all of the other machines, you can't get a username and password prompt for a share anyway. &nbsp;95 and 98 only give an option to input a password. &nbsp;This will usually not accept any password at all, and is usually a result of an unrecognized login name.
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Really, the best way is just to create the share and allow access to it by a certain group.  You can create a new group for this and add each of the users who are to have access to the share to that group.  Unless you have NT on all of the other machines, you can't get a username and password prompt for a share anyway.  95 and 98 only give an option to input a password.  This will usually not accept any password at all, and is usually a result of an unrecognized login name.

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i want a share from my linuxbox to be available, but password-protected, in windows. the password should be the same for all users and they all should have access.<br />
i.e. i just want to set pass on a smbshare.
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i want a share from my linuxbox to be available, but password-protected, in windows. the password should be the same for all users and they all should have access.
i.e. i just want to set pass on a smbshare.

Passwords on smb-shares (not user-specific)

The variety of Linux distributions creates myriad issues relating to configuration and operations when computers are networked, not the least of which is the use of various network management applications, some of which are included with specific distributions, while others are standalone applications.