It appears that this issue is specific to XP VMware guest machines that try to access samba shares hosted on a Feisty machine, as I am able to browse these shares and transfer files easily from native XP machines.
I will create a VMware guest linux machine and try to access the shares on my Feisty server to see if the same problem arises. Will post the results later today.
NAT networking for VMware is also a workaround.
It appears that this issue is specific to XP VMware guest machines that try to access samba shares hosted on a Feisty machine, as I am able to browse these shares and transfer files easily from native XP machines.
I will create a VMware guest linux machine and try to access the shares on my Feisty server to see if the same problem arises. Will post the results later today.