Connecting to MAC (Snow Leopard) from Windows 7 PC

Been trying to get the iMac to connect with a windows 7 pc. Have successfully connected to the PC from the iMac using the Go/Connect to server method. From the windows 7 PC perspective, the iMac shows up in network neighborhood, but when I double click on the iMac get an error message - "Windows cannot access ..." then the name of the iMac. This is associated with error code 0x80070035.
From the windows 7 PC, I can successfully ping the iMac by name and IP address. The iMac and PC are using the same workgroup name as well. I'm thinking the problem is associated with how I configured sharing on the iMac --- but I can't seem to figure out the problem. This is how the iMac sharing is configured:
- have a public folder set as the shared folder, with everyone identified as having read and write privileges
- under sharing/options,"share files and folders using SMB (Windows) is selected
- below that, have the "on" button checked for the accounts I have on the iMac.
Thinking that there is something in the sharing configuration that is the problem. Would appreciate any help. Thanks.

I don't know a whole lot about this topic, but I do know that, in Vista, Microsoft apparently disabled some important feature required for connecting to a Mac for file sharing, which caused some problems for my wife. We finally solved the problem for her by doing the following:
Go to the Start menu and go to All Programs -> Accessories -> Run
Type "Regedit.exe" and press return
Go to HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
Select Lsa, then choose Edit -> New -> Key
Type "DWORD" (without quotes) as the name in the list
Double-click the text "(Default)" in the right-hand pane
Enter "1" (without quotes) as the value and press OK
Quit Regedit and restart the machine
Log in to the remote Mac using "ip_address\username" as the user name
I'm not sure if this is still relevant on Windows 7, and I recall there was a much easier solution if you had one of the higher-end versions of Vista... but my wife only had Home Premium, which meant she didn't have the tool needed to make this fix easy. Stupid Microsoft...

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