Share files between Mac and win XP using airport ekspress

Hi.
I am having trouble sharing files between my mac and my win XP pc. The home network is set up like this:
- The PC is connected to our router
- The Airport ekspress is connected to our router
- The MacBook is connected to the Airport Ekspress
After a long time it is now possible for me to see my mac from the XP pc, but i can't connect to my Mac and I can't see the XP fra my Mac.
Antone who can tell me how to fix this very annoying problem? Are there any guides how to set up the network "correct"?
Hope you can help
Message was edited by: Kasper Soerensen

Hi Eric and welcome to Discussions and the Apple world.
Mac OSX can read and write from Windows partitions (like the BootCamp Windows partition you are about to create) when using FAT32 as file system for Windows.
However with FAT32 you are limited to a partition size of 32GB.
Mac OSX can also read from Windows partitions that uses the NTFS file system, but it can not write to them unless you use a third-party helper like either Paragons NTFS for Mac http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ or NTFS-3G http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
Windows can not even see or use a Mac OSX partition without additional help by MacDrive http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
Regards
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