Can't find other computer on network

My laptop is connected to my wireless router (Linksys) by Ethernet. The connection is working because I can get the internet on my laptop just fine, I just updated my Office applications; but I can't see my other, desktop computer for file sharing. I have no idea how to connect with it. The laptop is running 10.4.11 and my desktop is 10.5.2. File sharing is turned on on both computers. How do I get my laptop to see my other computer?

My 2 Firewire drives are connected to my desktop Mac Pro. My laptop sees the desktop and one of the firewire drives but not the other one. Actually it's rather important that it finds the other external drive. Both drives are mounted okay on my desktop. I don't understand why the laptop when it's networked with the desktop can't see the 2nd firewire drive.
Personal web sharing is checked on both computers. I can't find any checkbox under Sidebar that says Show Network on/off. That's on my Mac Pro with 10.5.2. The Laptop has 10.4.11 and I can't find any Sidebar there under System Prefs. Actually I don't know what Sidebar is. Could someone explain?

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