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Write to Samba Share in ASP.Net VB

I have setup a new Samba Share on our internal network, pointing to a folder on our SCO Unix server. On my XP Pro development PC, file system version of my WebSite, I am able to write to this Share folder no problem. But once I install it on our Windows 2003 server using IIS6 I get an error when trying to create the text file on the Share folder, see below.

What do I need to do to be able to write to this Samba folder from the Windows 2003 server Web Site? I created a virtual directory pointing to the Samba share folder, how to I reference it in my VB code behind. I have tried ApplicationPath, PhysicalApplicationPath etc... none work.

Also, I am able to browse and write to the Sahre folder from our Windows 2003 server using Explorer, no user name or password required. I suspect it has something to do with IIS6...
Ecception Details: System.IO.IOException: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
 
Line 164: owriter=IO.File.CreateText("\\Encore\WebOrderFiles\W" & mlngIdentity.ToString("00000000") & ".dat")
 
*** \\Encore\WebOrderFiles is the Samba Share folder name.

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Ok. When I try adding a new user in Samba, username = IUSR_RM0045, 1st it complains that the user account must exist in Unix. But this username is not legal in Unix, must be a max. of 8 characters, so I cannot create the account on the Unix server. I tried changing the user in Directory Security to ASPNET and then created a Unix account called aspnet (lowercase enforced by Unix, what can I do?), then created a Samba user called aspnet successfully but I am still getting the error. When i choose the FIND usernames option in Directory Security for Annonymous login it only shows me a set list of users including RM0045\IUSR_RM0045, IUSR_RM0045, ASPNET etc... am I in the right place?
Sorry for my ignorance in this user security issue, and thanks for helping.
ok, now I tried mapping a network drive (s:) to the Samba shared folder. I am able to open the s: drive and see the contents of the Samba share folder. Yet when I change my syntax to create the file on "s:\" I still get an error that part of the path could not be found.

Then I created a folder under the c: drive and changed the create file syntax to point to "c:\newfolder" and it worked fine, the files were created. What a royal pain!

Why can't I access the mapped network drive s:? What does it mean by "cannot find part of the path"? Why? I spend about 1 year writing a complete e-commerce Web Site and then another week (so far) trying to implement it. It should not be so compliacted (but I guess it just is).

Has no one else in the world ever had to do this, create a text file on a Samba shared foldder from an ASP.Net application running on Windows 2003 under IIS6? Hard to believe. Please help.
I guess I have stumpped the whole community??
I have resolved this with help through my other question. I setup a domain user and made sure it has access to both SQL server and Samba...