My House PC wont See my Mac on our wireless network

Sorry if this has previously been discussed, but when i searched for this problem, I kept getting "Mac wont see PC" results in my search. but my problem is the other way around. I can see the PC's in the house in my shared folder and I can access one of them and take and send files to that computer, but none of the PCs can see my Mac. Is this a problem with my Mac or the PC?
I have the settings in my Sharing folder set up, File shareing is turned on and I've selected a folder on my desktop I want the the PC's to see. The users are listed as me, "users" and "everyone" I'm set at Read and write and the other two are set at Read only. And on the side panel under "service" I have File sharing checked off.
Is there something else I need to do? Or is there something we need to do on the PC.
As I said before I can see one of the PCs (the desktop upstairs) and share files (on my side) but I can't access the other PC (a lap top downstairs). I can only see the name in the shared folder in my HD side panel. When I click on it, it tells me Connection failed and then asks me for a user name and password for the Pc server. I don't have to do that with the other PC when i access it's C and D drives.
Help please.

Couldn't figure out how to edit my OP, so to add:
I just got my iMac to see the downstairs Lap Top PC's C and D drives and Shared Folder and successfully transfered files. It was a combination of me making appletalk active (not sure if that helped) And selecting the network workgroup name in the WINS window of my network setting window. From there I was able to connect to his Lap top's shared folder. Then My BF switched on his file sharing for his C and D drives which gave me full access to them and not just the "shared folder" he had.
but the original problem still remains, both his desktop and Lap Top PCs can't see my Mac.

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