Problems with SMB

I am having troubles getting some of the registry needing scans to work
because nessus seems to be dropping my configuration for user name and
password and using blanks.  In other words, I am entering username and
password for valid accounts on the target machine but when the scan comes
back I get a notice:

All the smb tests will be done as ''/'' in domain OLD

I tried modifying logins.nasl to give me notice if smb_user/pass could not
be read from the knowledge base.  I got neither notice.

This computer is in its own workgroup.  It is not a member of a domain. 
This is an XP pro install.  AFAICT the services needed to allow remote
logins and remote access to the registry are in fact started.  If I scan a
different computer that is a member of a domain, and use either a domain
user or a local user it works just fine.  But on this computer, that is
not a domain member, the entered username and password are not used.

One major problem I think is that I am getting no debug information.  I
have no idea why the username and password are not being used as entered. 
Nothing is telling me anything.  It does not appear to be a client side
issue because I use the nessus client that came with core, and my own
using Net::Nessus::ScanLite and both have the same results.

So, for some unknown reason, nessusd is ignoring the username and password
I enter for SMB access and uses blanks.  Does anyone have a clue why?

Thanks.


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