samba - May 2002 - Authentication problem between RH 7.3 Samba and W98

Dear Samba gurus,

I am setting up file sharing between a new linux box running RedhHat 7.3
and a W98 PC, and almost have things running but have run into a problem
that is beyond my ability. I have W98 set up for PlainText password, and
have set up Samba to match.

Everything seems fine on the linux box. When I enter:

smbclient //irisarian/rout -U Gerry%PassWd 

the connection succeds and log.irisarian (debug 2) shows:

[2002/05/29 18:01:47, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(972)
  Defaulting to Lanman password for Gerry
[2002/05/29 18:01:47, 2] lib/access.c:check_access(319)
  Allowed connection from  (127.0.0.1)
[2002/05/29 18:01:47, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(615)
  irisarian (127.0.0.1) connect to service ROUT as user Gerry (uid=500,
gid=500) (pid 30790)

Things seem okay on W98 up to a point.

nbtstat -n   and   nbtstat -A linuxIP   both showed the expected output.
But trying an actual connection led to the following in log.winiris:

 [2002/05/29 19:34:28, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(972)
  Defaulting to Lanman password for gerry
[2002/05/29 19:34:31, 2] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_auth(510)
  smb_pam_auth: PAM: Athentication Error for user gerry
[2002/05/29 19:34:31, 2] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_error_handler(70)
  smb_pam_error_handler: PAM: Authentication Failure : Authentication
failure
[2002/05/29 19:34:31, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(827)
  smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User gerry !
[2002/05/29 19:34:33, 2] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_auth(510)
  smb_pam_auth: PAM: Athentication Error for user gerry
[2002/05/29 19:34:33, 2] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_error_handler(70)
  smb_pam_error_handler: PAM: Authentication Failure : Authentication
failure
[2002/05/29 19:34:33, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(827)
  smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User gerry !
[2002/05/29 19:34:33, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(988)
  Rejecting user 'gerry': authentication failed
[2002/05/29 19:34:33, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(458)
  Closing connections

Any clues what my problem is, what more I can try, or where i should
look?

TIA,

Gerry
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