Share airport to xp

Hello,
I've been trying to share my leopard 1.6 ethernet connection through the AirPort card to a Windows XP computer, but it doesn't work. I've tried anything i could find and nothing at all worked. I've tried without any encryption, i've tried wep with various keys and even used a wep key maker software with the hex key workaround. NOTHING worked. Yet again apple has disappointed me.
Has anyone had any luck establishing a wireless connection from an XP computer to the mac? If so, could you describe in detail what you did?
Thank you, i'm out of ideas

My question is, will the Time Capsule allow the PC laptops wireless access shared files and printers hosted by other PCs in the workgroup, as opposed to printers connected to the Mac Mini/Time Capsule?
Yes

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