linux and windows file sharing

It's fairly easy to configure samba on the linux machine to have it share it's drive, printers & do authentication for your windows clients. I've found it easier to connect win clients to linux than linux clients to linux (NIS is not cooperating forme). Anyway, if you can't find the info you're looking for on the www, I'll post you a sample config that may get you started.
Good luck,
Keith

Samba is pretty well documented.
As a starting point try the link below (remove any extraneous whitespace)

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/

Dont forget SWAT...
makes configuring Samba a walk in the park.
If it is activated in inetd.conf

look for a line that looks like
swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat
if it has a # in front remove it...

then use any browser on the machine to access
http:/localhost:901/
or when you already gave accesrights to your network you can log in from any other machine to administer samba.
http:/ServerNameOrIp:901/
Best feature of swat, the online help for each setting!