Having issues connecting to folders - with a twist!

Hi there
Im new to the world of macs, and quite frankly loving it so far, however i have a small problem which i would love some hlep with please.
anyway, my problem i see is well documented on a lot of forums and websites, but ive yet to find a solution in the past couple of hours that works for me, so i thought id come ask the people that know best.
Ok so i have my xp machine, which i want to connect to my mac, nothing odd there i hear you say, well, ive gone through the usual steps, tried to map network drive to \\192.168.0.103\grahammasters <-- my "short" name on the mac lol
and not a thing, well thats not true, i get an error message about not finding it, funny thing is if i go to view network computers i see it, so i click it and it says something about not being accessable, and the path could not be found
So where is this different from everyone else then?
well, i go to the other room, sit down, pick up my mac keyboard, click "network" and voilla, i can access the stuff from my pc no problem.
So im stumped, sorry if im just being a complete noob, but i just cant crack this.
Information that may be useful:
- both PC and mac are on the same workgroup
- windows file sharing is enabled on the mac and an account selected
- tried turning firewall off on pc in case that made a difference, but it may be my wireless routers firewall?
- when using personal web site thing, i can connect to the original webpage on the mac from the xp machine.
As far as i can see everything "should" be ok, so any light shed on this would be sweet.
Cheers in advance

An update to the OS was made availible a few days ago which corrected the windows -> mac mini (intel) communications.

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