Connecting a MBP to a PC

HELP ME! I'm sure this question has been asked about a thousand times before but anyway..
I have a lovely new MBP and I'm trying to connect it wirelessly to my Dell desktop PC. I have tried everything and nothing seems to work. The only progress I have made is that if I connect them directly with a cable via the ethernet ports then the PC can see the MBP and I can transfer files but the MBP doesn't see the PC in Network Browser. I have pinged the PC from the MBP and it works fine so what's going on????!
MBP Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Krypton_xi wrote:
I think it has something to do with one being wired and one being wireless.
I'd agree, based on my experience. In 2009, I had an MBP on Wi-Fi and a PC on ethernet. The ONLY time I could get them to see each other and share was when I plugged the ethernet into the MBP. BOTH wireless was a no-go too. They had to be hard wired to connect.

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