Network with windows computer... how?

i have asked this question before in another forum but was left only more confused. i have a vista laptop and a macbook over a home wifi network. they both use the internet through it. now i have enabled sharing and network discovery on vista laptop and also on mac. now the problem is they cannot detect each other. sometimes when they do detect the other but are not able to open their shared folders.
i would like to have a sharing where there is no username and pwd required. if the two are on at anytime they should be able to see each others shared files.
thanks

I was having a similar problem with XP. Fortunately I'm fairly windows literate so reading between the lines for the windows side was not a problem. Thanks so much for posting this link. I still have several minor issues but i'm up and running. My PC does not show up under shared but shows in network in finder. I can only log on to the PC as guest as it does not recognise my password for some reason although I've double checked the password for the PC in keychain.
Also I want to change my TimeCapsule password but when I try I get a password expired message? I don't think it matters but my mac connects wirelessly to a timecapsule which is connected to the PC via ethernet.
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