Shared computers show up in the Finder as IP addresses

How do I go about giving a name to a shared computer that shows up in the Finder? Also, how to I tell my Mac to always connect to this shared computer, even after reboots? Right now I have to always manually connect to it. It seems to like to login as "guest", even though I have an account on this shared computer, which is an XP box by the way.
Thanks.

with mac to mac sharing the computers hostname/bonjour name shows in the sidebar.
on your XP will need to give it a hostname.
To make it login automatically, press command +k connect to your xbox smb://serverip
once the volume is mounted you can drag it to your login items, system preferences-->accounts-->select your account, click the login items tab then drag your network volume onto that window.

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