Help to set up network: XP Home OS desktop & mac mini (Mac OS/  XP Home OS)

Hello!
I’d be grateful for advice on setting up a home network.
I’m a total newbie to MAC OS Leopard, so please excuse my lack of knowledge!
Background:
- Livebox (residential internet gateway)
- XP Home OS Desktop pc (has wired connection to Livebox)
- MAC OS Leopard Apple Mac Mini (has wireless connection to Livebox)
- Mac Mini also has a Windows partition with XP Home OS (has Boot Camp and Fusion installed).
I want to set up a network between the desktop pc and the Mac Mini so I can back up the two hard drives on a shared area, share files, and share the printer.
I have successfully connected the Mac Mini wirelessly to the Livebox (and the internet) via its Airport- obviously on the MAC OS side.
I would like to be able to log into either the Mac OS side or the XP Home side to work on files stored separately in each side. However, I also would like to share files between each side of the mac.
Is there a way the XP Home OS side of the Mac Mini able can access files created on its other, MAC OS side, and vice versa? (would this mean sharing via the network, without physically having to switch between the two sides of the mac itself?)
Consequently, how do I set up the network to share files etc. between the XP Home desktop pc and the Mac Mini (both stored on its XP Home OS side and its Mac OS side)?
Would this mean I set up the network as having 3 individual connections:
1. the XP Home desktop & 2. the XP Home side of the mac & 3. the MAC OS side of the Mac?
If so, how do I set up this network?
I am sure this is much simpler than I have made it sound!!! ;-(
Any comments gratefully received.
Thank you all in advance.
albyliontk

Will i have to reinstall
both OSX and Windows, or will Parallels run with the
already installed Windows xp through bootcamp?
No you can use the bootcamp partition and windows xp directly through parallels.
Second question, i have never installed Windows on a
Mac, so i'm not really sure what to do, so can
someone give me some good tips on this?
First get OSX installed. Then you can look at this for getting help and downloading the latest version of bootcamp.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303572
When i install the new HD, do i install OSX as i
would normally, and then install Bootcamp, or will
installation be different than the regular
straight-forward install?
Install OSX. Bootcamp is then installed into OSX and you run it from there to do the bootcamp setup.
I'm guessing that i will have to partition the drive
to run both OS's, but how will i go about doing that?
And how much disk space should i give each OS? I
have 160GB so maybe 50GB to Windows and 110GB to
OSX?
Bootcamp installer in OSX will partition your drive so you don't need to worry about it yet. I would suggest at least 15 GB , more if you are going to be runnin lots of windows programs.
Btw, i'll be using superduper to make a copy of my
current HD, but i dont know what to do with it when
installing the new HD and OS.
Where are you making the copy of your hard drive at? If it is an external drive you can make it bootable and then you can restore from it on the new drive. Saves a lot of time and trouble.
Mort

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