Peter Knapper wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 PK> SAMBA (for *nix) is the equivalent of PEER SERVICES (for OS/2). 
 PK> PEER Services consists of both the SERVER and CLIENT code. You 
 PK> need PEER SERVICES running to be able to connect an OS/2 CLIENT 
 PK> to resources served from a SAMBA Server.

Now _that_ is the bit that I was looking for...

 PK> One point to watch out for is that the PEER SERVICES machines 
 PK> is configured in the SAME DOMAIN (or WORKGROUP) as the SAMBA 
 PK> machine. If they are in different DOMAINS, then they will not 
 PK> be able to see each other... Then you need to consider the User 
 PK> profiles you are going to login in with...

Yes,  I was aware of the domain issue,  and have stayed on top of that.  The
user login is another matter,  and one that I'd suspected I was going to have
to deal with here.

There are an awful lot of different "bits" of stuff in the networking part of
this,  and I'm not real clear as to just which ones I need to be using.  It
doesn't help much that everybody calls things by different names,  either. 

Firing up the OS/2 box as I type this,  I see "net start req" going by,  and
it's attempting to start network messaging too (how do I stop that?).

In my network folder there's "LAN Svcs" (which is also on the desktop for some 
reason),  "LAN Server and OS/2 Peer Resources",  "Network SignON
Coordinator/2", and "UPM Services".  Do I need _all_ of that?

Clicking on that second one,  I get prompted for a login,  and trying one with 
a username/password that I know is valid on the other box,  I get "access
denied". It also says in that "Login" box that the Network is "LS",  dunno
where that came from or how to change it.  The domain name does show up
properly in another part of that,  though.

Clicking on the third and fourth items won't let me get past a password
prompt, I'm not sure what I need to configure to fix this.

Under "LAN Svcs" there's a whole bunch of stuff.  What the difference is
between "LAN Server Logon" and "Peer Workstation Logon" isn't clear to me.
Both of these get as far as a user/password prompt,  and appear to be doing
some stuff over the network (judging by the flickering lights on my hub) but
the former comes back with "The remote node or domain server is not currently
available" (which suggests that I don't have something configured right) and
the latter won't let me get past the user/password prompt.  In either case I'm 
trying a login that's valid on the Linux box.

One last thing -- if I click on "Sharing and Connecting" it shows me some
stuff that's on the w95 box,  but that's about it,  nothing on the Linux box
shows up in here (though I can see that stuff on the w95 box!)...

Suggestions?  I could use some help here...  :-)

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