I want to share files with my windows and mac computer.

I have a Fujitsu Life book and I want to manage files between it and my mac, but using leopards new sharing feature It recognizes the computer but when it try's to connect doesn't work or it says that "the source can't connect check if its turned off (which it isn't)". I enabled sharing in my mac but does that include windows machines? and do I have to do enable anything on the pc to connect? also on the laptop when I enter my macs afp address it goes to google.

whenever i want to share files between my windows machine and my PB running Leopard , i go into sharing and enable file sharing . Then i turn off afp ( and samba ) and enable ftp . then from windows i'll fire up an ftp client and browse to the drop box and move what ever i want to move back and forth . it works really good for me . But this is all done on my home network , not across the internet .

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