Connect to mac from XP

hello,,
I want to connect my windows XP computer to my mac, so i did the following steps:
In My Mac:
1-enabling smb sharing file mode
2-adding new user for windows computer
3-I register my network on WINS workgroup "Mshome"
In windows XP I cannot see my mac from local area network and windows workgroup
Question:// how can I add my mac on windows workgroup and connect to it?
computer name: Alawi Al-khadhrawi's MacBook
My user name: Alawi Al-Khadhrawi
short name: alawial-khadhrawi
smb://192.168.1.1
Is there any problem with long of user name ,short name and computer name
now in windows XP what I should write to connect to my mac

Hello,,
I tried again
I can now see my mac from XP but I can't open my mac

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