One Mac in a PC environment, networking?

alrighty,
I am a high school student, I am a graphic layout designer for my schools newspaper. I'm sad to say my school is all PCs. So i bought an emac and brought it into my school (how wrong is that? a student bringing in his/her own computer for a class that is design?) anyway, my school uses a Novell client for all the students to log in. I need my mac to talk to other PCs, i set up windows sharing on the mac, but.. i know nothing about windows! whats the simplest way to network my mac?
Thanks,
Jordan Kennedy

Back at my high school, we had all PCs and one lonely Mac in the corner. Our networks were Novell based and the computer was a PowerMac G4 running 10.1 or 10.2, I think. It was really bad. I tried to use this Novell software to connect to the network, and it would connect, but then afterwards it couldn't disconnect, so I had to get the teacher to call tech support. What a waste that Mac was, they didn't update the system and it had zero software on it. The only thing it could do was surf, they locked out your ability to download anything useful to run on it.

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