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I have a MacBook and PC running Windows XP. Access to the network and internet is using a Verizon FIOS Actiontec router. I can see the MacBook from the PC but cannot see the PC from the MacBook. I have turned off all firewalls (Norton and even the Actiontec router) but am unable to connect to the PC from the Mac. I have shared PC folders and try and login using an account with password, but still no luck.
Any other ideas?

This is a very common problem, but there is not yet any one solution that seems to work for everyone,
Questions/suggestions:
1) Are you sharing the root drive of the PC? (C$ or D$)? Tiger used to display these shares - Leopard does not (the $ is meant to be a convention to hide the share on a PC - Leopard is respecting the Windows convention properly).
2) Try connecting via the "Go" menu, using smb://yourpcname.local/yoursharename.
3) Try connecting vis the "Go" menu, using smb://yourPCipaddress/yoursharename.
4) Did you upgrade from Tiger? If so - are you using the "Automatic" location? This causes lots of problems, because it does not remember the workgroup/domain for your PC network. Try creating a new location, then click on the "Advanced...." button, followed by the "WINS" tab. If you don't have any entry for the workgroup name, enter either WORKGROUP or the name of the domain that your PC uses.
5) Are you using "Simple File Sharing" on the PC? Is it running XP Home or Pro? (If Home you have to use Simple File Sharing, if not, you have more powerful choices).
That should do for starters,.,.. (there are few guarantees, unless you are able to use static IP addresses, and are ready to edit your hosts file, which is a brute force method of making it work).
Cheers,
Rodney

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