Sharing files with Vista

First, my macbook pro can see all the Vista computers on my network; however, my macbook pro cannot see any of the Vista computers.
Second, when I enable SMB sharing, Vista cannot log in, but XP can. This is very irritating. Any suggestions?

I had the same problem accessing Leopard files from Vista, that is, logon to access Leopard shares worked under XP, but not under Vista. Here is the Vista solution I found: When logging on to access the Leopard shares under Vista the user name must be:
DOMAIN\username, Specifically, D-O-M-A-I-N backslash username
NOTE: Capitalization of DOMAIN is essential! The token username is that required by Leopard, not literally username.
Why this works when nothing else I tried did is a major mystery. It is surreal. How I found this solution was capitalization of DOMAIN in the hint I got from VISTA when I typed the usesname with an invalid syntax. It took many hours to find this solution, and I am finished fiddling. It would be nice if someone else could find out more about this really weird syntactical solution.
I am more than a little frustrated because I cannot figure out who to blame.

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