Connecting Macbook to windows network

I am trying to make my macbook join my dads network as he wants to backup to my 500gb WD My Book Harddrive. I can access all of his shared files on his desktop, his laptop and my moms laptop. They however do not even see my computer in the network. What is the problem here? Is it possible that they are just not going to it right. I hope you can help you, thank you.

I've never been able to "see" my MB from our Windows computers. Under "Windows Sharing", I have AFP and SMB selected. Due to the warning when FTP is selected, I haven't checked that box. I also see the following line...
Other users can access your computer at afp://10.0.1.196/ or browse for "MacBook".
I've tried putting afp://10.0.1.196/ in a Windows computer without any luck also.
So, I've generally given up on sharing files between computers and if I need something on another computer, I "flash drive" it. However, it would be nice to be able to share.

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