How to See PC's on a wireless network

I have recently created a wireless network in my home for my wife's desktop, my laptop and our TiVo DVR. I can see the DVR from both PC's as well as transfer files to and from the DVR to either PC. Question I have is why can't the two PC's see each other? I am running Windows XP-Pro on my laptop and my wife has Windows 2000. As far as Linksys equipment, I have a wireless-G adapter (PCMCIA) card in my laptop, a wireless-B adapter (USB) on the TiVo DVR and a wireless router (B/G compatible) wired into my wifes desktop.
I would like to be able to link my wife's PC with my laptop for file transfers, etc. and I can't seem to get it to work. Am I missing something with this setup? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks..

Try turning off your windows firewall on both computers. Also any virus suite that you may have that has a firewall need to be set. Go to your personal firewall and go to trusted IPs. Click on trust my entire network, ans save the settings. That should allow you to see all pc's on your network.
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