Help! - having trouble networking macs & pc's

I just purchased several macbook pros and have added them to my home network with multiple pc's including one with a printer attached as well as a NAS device. I have followed all the instructions for setting up sharing for my macs including smb protocol enabling and setting the workgroup under the WINS tab under Network > Options. I have also gone in and enabled automatic authorization in at least one Windows Vista machine on my network. Firewalls are down on the windows machines.
The two macbook pros can see each other. But they cannot see any pc's on the network.
Two of my pc's can see one of the macbook pros but not the other. I don't know what I did differently on it as compared to the other one.
I have rebooted all computers. All the pc's can see each other and share files. All the pc's can access the NAS.
This seems like a mess. Can anyone help me sort this out? I've been working on it for 2 days now.
Grateful for any help,
Brian

2 of the pc's are running Vista. They are the 2 which see one of the macbooks.
3 of the pc's are running XP and they can see the one macbook as well.
By the way, the firewalls are down on the macbooks too.
The NAS is an HP Mediavault running some version of Linux and has FTP, HTTP, CIFS, and NFS servers therefore making it possible for Windows, OSX, and Linux machines to share with it.
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