Can't connect to my Mac from a PC

Question

I need to connect PCs on our company network to folders on my iMac. I've tried everything. Nothing works. I have folders on my Mac set up for sharing. I did manage, yesterday afternoon, to connect to my Mac from my virtual PC that's on this same Mac. I did this:
net use X: \\macpeter.local\documents
The name of my Mac is "macpeter."
But, this morning, even that doesn't work. I have no idea why.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi BDAqua,
I fixed it. I just googled and googled and googled. Here's my doc, that I've saved, thank goodness.
In System Preferences on the Mac
Go to Sharing.
Check File Sharing.
Make sure, under Sharing, that you've added the network names of any users
you're allowing to connect to your Mac.
Press the "+" sign to add folders you want to share.
Under Users, give rights.
Under Sharing, click on Options
Click on "Share Files and Folders using SMB (Windows)"
Also, click on "Share Files and Folders using AFP." (That's so other Macs can see this Mac.)
Also, in System Preferences.
Go to Network.
Choose the network. Click on Advanced.
Choose WINS.
Type in the NETBIOS name of your Mac, in my case, MACPETER.
You can keep "WORKGROUP" as the name of the workgroup. In fact,
you really can't change this here at all. It'll always just keep it at "WORKGROUP."
Press OK.
Press Apply.
It's the last section that I'd never done. I needed to give the foreign Windows machines a NETBIOS name for my Mac. So, I just typed in the name of my Mac, "macpeter," and it works.
Thanks for your help!!