Sharing a folder on Mac Mini 10.6.4 to view on xp machine from desktop

G'day
I am currently a trainee at the AICM(Australian Institute of Country Music)
Today i have been asked to set up a link between an xp machine and the mac mini server. I have no previous experience with mac server software but the directors made it adement they wanted macs so they went and bought about 6 pc's including a mac mini server.
The current deal is that we previously had an old mac pro tower hooked up to an ethernet network which ran our printer, web proxy etc.
I have since migrated most of the settings and stuff such as web proxy over, sorted out open directory.
WHAT I NEED TO NOW IS GET AN XP MACHINE TALKING TO THE SERVER *caps for emphasis on topic*
Ill post a few screenshots below along with explanations of steps which i thought would create a shortcut or directory to a shared file on mac mini server
old server ip is :192.168.2.10
new server ip is :192.168.2.15
XP machine already had mapped network drive. However old server has been turned off and replaced so ip is no longer valid. As you can see in the pic below the option to add mserv as network drive is blanked out. However i went through a series of seperate steps to add a network place(not network drive) and mserv was indeed in workgroup list. It is inaccesible however after inputting password.
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The following list of screenshots is a series of steps i took to add a network drive workaround. They should be in order
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Mac server screenies
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If anybody can eleborate or give me an easy fix solution to what im trying to do that would be great

If you can see the workgroup but after selecting it the PC name does not appear then this is odd. One suggestion could be that the PC is using a different workgroup name to workgroup - such as MSHome. You could check this on the PC by right-clicking the Computer icon and selecting Properties.
Whatever name the PC is using for the workgroup you can set the Mac to use the same. If you open System Preferences > Network and select the interface that you are using on the Mac (Ethernet or Airport) you can then select the Advanced tab and then open the WINS tab. In the Workgroup drop menu you can then select the workgroup name that the Mac can use.
If changing the workgroup name to be the same as the PC still doesn't help (note that it can take 15 minutes for the master browser to pass information throughout the local network) then there is a manual method you can use that bypasses the browsing function.
With the Print & Fax > Add Printer window open, if you control-click the toolbar you can select to 'Customize Toolbar'. You will then see the Advanced icon which you can drag into the toolbar (next to the Windows icon will be fine). If you now select the Advanced icon you can then change the Type drop menu to Windows. Then in the URL field, after smb://, you can enter the IP address or name of the PC followed by a / and then the shared name for the printer. For example,
smb://windows-xp/mp980
You can then enter a name for the printer and in the Print Using menu you can select the appropriate driver. This is another important point as many of the vendor supplied drivers do not support this type of network connection. Instead you may need to use the Gutenprint driver suite that is included with 10.6.
Hope this helps you. If you get stuck then describe where you are up to and we'll get back to you with more help.

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