Samba access issue in Windows 7

[ldi9999]

I'm having an issue with samba accessing from Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit version.

I have two shares in smb.conf, one has read only access "External" for user without password, another one is r/w "ExternalRW" for users with password. here is the sbm.conf:

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[global]
 workgroup = WORKGROUP
 server string = ALARM
 netbios name = ALARM
 security = user
 null passwords = yes
 map to guest = bad user
 log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
 max log size = 50
 dns proxy = no
 socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=131072 SO_SNDBUF=131072 SO_KEEPALIVE

[ExternalRW]
 path = /media/External/
 read only = no
 public = yes
 writable = yes
 guest ok = no

[External]
 path = /media/External/
 read only = yes
 public = yes
 writable = no
 guest ok = yes


I could see both shares under Network in Windows 7. Read only share "External" works as expected. However, I'm having issue accessing RW share "ExternalRW". When I double clicked on "MediaRW", windows pop up window asking for user id and password. No matter how I enter, I always get "access denied" error and never be able to access the share.

Any idea? Thanks.

[WarheadsSE]

And you've verified the username is in the smbpasswd blah blah.. ?

[ldi9999]

I followed the guide

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Now we create a user that will be used for guest access. Use all defaults and pick a password.
adduser pcguest

Add the new guest account to samba. (Use a blank password since it's a guest account).
smbpasswd -a pcguest

I did tried user pcguest, guest, root.. anything I could think of.

[WarheadsSE]

guest = bad user, remember?

maybe a valid user added might help...