Connecting a mac to a pc - how?

Does anyone know how I can make my pc and mac talk to each other...share folders etc?
Is it even possible to share my USB portable hard-drive on my mac so the pc can see it?
Any help would be most appreciate it, i'm useless at these types of things!
Thanks,
Mark

You can share the hard drive if it is formatted as FAT32. Both Macs and PCs can read and write to that file format, but remember that FAT32 has issues with individual files that are larger than 4GB, so that means DVD images might not be able to be read.
MacDrive will allow your XP machine to read and write HFS+ formatted disks, but if you don't do it often, it is not worth the purchase.
You certainly can set your Mac and PC up to share files and even a printer. I would walk you through it, but Joel Shoemaker and iFelix do it better than I could.

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