Alright bud have a question for you about the links to get samba working. If you did this yourself using the step-by-step guide over at g300HN.blogspot.com, did you change your drive to ext3?
Right now I have it running FAT32 on my Windows 7 machine. I just don't know if I will still be able to access the drive if directly plugged to my computer in the ext3 format. If I can, I will format to ext3 now.
I am having issues at the moment with the install, saying the drive is read only, so I am thinking it is due to it being a FAT32 system.