Connecting to Windows PCs

Hello.
I've had this issue for a long time and just never did anything about it. Hopefully there's an easy answer...
If I look on my LAN to see other computers and none are there, then I go turn on a WinXP machine and it connects fine to the network, then I look on my Windows network for that computer, it never shows up.
If I reboot the Mac, it will show up -- but that's a terrible solution overall. Since there's no F5-Refresh on the Mac when browsing the network in a Finder window, I'm at a loss for any other ideas though. How about you?
Thanks,
ALF

A few things to try...
Bonjour for Windows® from Apple>Downloads... made it much faster for Windows® to be seen/found for me.
In Finder>Preferences>Sidebar, toggle off the Show Network Icon, wait, then toggle that setting back on.
One of these 2 commands in Terminal... change the en0/1 to whatever interface you use...
sudo ipconfig set en0 BOOTP;sudo ipconfig set en0 DHCP
sudo ifconfig en1 down;sudo ifconfig en1 up
Or just wait for up to 45 minutes for Windows® to show up!

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I am a little lost now.. I have read again your title and your first post.. and they seem inconsistent.
In the title you state.
From my interanet I can access srvr but not from my home.
Interanet is not a word I know.. I assumed intranet...are you talking about internet or intranet? And just to be clear say WAN or LAN.. !! Is your home part of the interanet??
In the first post you state,
I can access windows server from within interanet but don't know how to access it from internet.
Now this is more normal.. the issue is not in the home at all, it is accessible from there but fails from internet. If this is correct, then you can do a few obvious things to determine where the problem is.
But first I need to know are you actually testing from a different internet connection to your home lan.. you are not just trying the public IP from inside the LAN as that will fail due to the TC not doing NAT Loopback.
I am also assuming the TC is the only router in the network, and has the public IP on the WAN interface.
And I am also assuming you have turned on the ping responder and you can actually ping your public ip from the internet and get a response. This helps no end in figuring out where there are issues. Strange but I have no idea if there is a ping responder in the TC WAN so you might need to forward that as well. Also if you have a dynamic public ip address are you using dyndns or no-ip or some other service to connect.
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2. Assuming from test 1 the TC is the problem, Post the screen shots of the port forwarding setup for us to look at.. that is by far the easiest way to check it out.
There are lots of references to port forwarding in the TC.. eg
http://must-know-mac.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-port-forward-time-capsule.html
The things that generally go wrong are firewall on the computer that is accepting the port.
The ISP doesn't allow connections on a particular port. (not likely in your case)
The router is behind another router.. double NAT will kill any port forward.
Upnp has already allocated a port.. not an issue as TC doesn't use upnp although a reboot of everything after you set port forwards is well worth it.. amazing how things don't stick properly without a reboot.
IP on the receiving device is not static and so changes.
Not enough or right type of ports are opened. This is always messier than it looks as one port is often not enough for two way communications.

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I answered the questions that were asked. "What will be, will be"
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