Bonjour file-sharing?

Regarding Bonjour for Windows:
Basically, I just have two Windows computers connected to the same wireless network that I want to share files between without configuring domains/workgroups/etc. I thought Bonjour would help me with this. Does anybody have any experience in doing this? I installed Bonjour on the two computers and no connected printers showed up as usable, but I also had forgotten to enable printer sharing (I'll try it later, but printer-sharing is secondary to file sharing). Do I just enable file sharing and the "shared documents" folder will be available to both computers? How does it show up? In "My Computer"?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Note: this is not between Windows and a Mac, just Windows to Windows.

I'm not aware of any "built in" tools in XP for file-sharing that do not require setting up a network with domains/workgroups. This is what I was hoping Bonjour would help to do, and asked about in my original question. After all, I can share iTunes libraries without doing any of that, why not printer and file sharing?
If I have to set up workgroups, I suppose I'll look into it, but I was hoping that there was another way. Is Bonjour for Windows only intended to facilitate communication on mixed Windows/Mac networks?
By the way - this is not a "MAC" forum, per se. This is a "Bonjour for Windows" forum, a place to get support on Apple's "Bonjour for Windows". Therefore, I'm asking a question about Bonjour... on Windows.

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--------to be continued--------------
Folding@home completed is 51+ hour run. In about 30m minutes the first checkpoint will be written and then I hope to reboot into 10.6.3 and try Screen Sharing again.
[22:26:41] + Results successfully sent
[22:26:41] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[22:26:41] + Number of Units Completed: 68

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Hi,
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Good isolation testing, and component elimination.
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<http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/13388/bonjour-browser>
<http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15779/wakeonlan>
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I have run out of experiments to try. Hopefully this will shake something loose and allow you to move forward towards a solution.

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