Networking a macbook pro and a windows 7 computer

I can access my windows computer from my macbook fine. Sometimes I can access my macbook from Windows computer sometimes I can't. It is always listed there under network but most of the time when I click on the icon i get YOUR-MAC is not accessible, remote procedure call failed. It just happened to me now while I was checking. Clicked it once and it showed all the files and folders I have set up to share on my macbook, click it again and I get remote procedure call failed. For a while it was working OK and then it became intermittent. Now 90% of the time I can't access the macbook. Sometimes if I type in //YOUR-MAC into the explorer address bar that will help. This is nuts, I can seriously access my shared folders and then 2 seconds later hit refresh and I get remote procedure call failed.
What is going on.
(How come I can't just access the Apple discussions forum? The way this worked getting here was awful. I'd rather actually do a power search through the forum to see if I can find any info than just throw a question out into the ether.)

fixed this by turning off file sharing on my mac and unsharing all my files and folder and then redoing all of that.

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In French
Je souhaite acheter un Macbook Pro, mais j'ai besoin de savoir si je pourrais imprimer sur la seulr imprimante de la amison qui est en partage sur le PC de ma femme?
thank you.

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Hi LamboMong,
just try this:
http://refit.sourceforge.net
install, reboot twice and choose the Windows-Partition on next startup.
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Supposedly, I'm to link the computer and printer initially with the USB cable, configure it, and then it's supposed to work WITHOUT the USB cable.
I've configured the printer in my MacBook Pro, but I'm supposed to "highlight the access point" (presumably my router) in the IJ printer window, and it isn't there.
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Thank you Team ZigZag
I have had 3 different vendors where I had to go to "higher" level support. The most recent occasion was with my router where I overheard the "supervisor" tell the 1st level tech support person "there is no way that the router will work with a workgroup.
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Our company develops software for Windows Management in the Enterprise space, and I spend most of my time demoing the software in a VMware environment.
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techydude,
"Exclusivist?" No, not at all. And, I do not disagree about the potential for conversion, either.
However, I try to avoid whatever "evangelical" tendencies I might have. Sure, if someone comes here inquiring about OS X, and it seems apparent that they are looking for relief from Windows, I will wax eloquently (well, I'll wax) all day about the advantages of OS X.
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