samba - May 2004 - upgrade from 1.x to 3.0.0.4 : veritas backup exec cannot connect

I figured out a previous issue to allow you to connect veritas BE to a
samba system.  You basically just defind a c$ share, and it was happy
(Veritas BE version 8.5 Rev 3572)
 
Now, I cannot get the user defined share to connect for the life of me
anymore.  The backup user can connect using windows shares, but within
the application, I'm out of luck.
 
It keeps asking for a username/password as if the current one isn't
good.  
 
In the backup_server.log file I see a bunch of:
 
[2004/05/25 12:51:46, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(413)
  write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer
[2004/05/25 12:51:46, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(438)
  write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 22: ERRNO = Connection
reset by peer
[2004/05/25 12:51:46, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(630)
  Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. (Connection reset by peer)

 
Any suggestions on where to go from here?