Sharing files with windows and OS X.

Alright, I have been helping my school setup about 20 new lenovo PC's and 2 iMacs. It is a newspaper class, but this isn't a small little newspaper. I am trying to figure out a way to setup a way for students to write their article and give me the word document files and pictures along with it. What would be the easiest way to do this? setup the Mac as a server? if so how do i configure the windows side to see the server? is there a cool app that will do this for me? i need help!
another thing i am doing is setting up a wordpress site so students can log on and post their articles online and it to be printed. i am very excited as the graphic designer to get this all working smoothly. so any bit of information helps
the PC's have XP and the school blocks most ports (network wise) except for port 80 but they have a ton of filters. and the iMacs are the newest, running leopard of course.
Thanks in advance!

The only problem is that I tried to do that but when you log into the PC's you have limited access, theres no way i can have admin privileges. is there some way i can get a folder showing up on all those computers? maybe make an smb sharing service on the mac and setting up a shortcut on the windows boxes to the iMacs address?

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Now here is the problem. In my windows 7 pc, under the network, I can see my macbook appear. When I click, it is giving me a login pop-up. There, I've entered the login name of my macbook air, and password, but it kept giving me an error message that it is not the correct one.
I have no idea why this happening. The most bazzarre thing is that it sometimes is connected with the same setting. Can anyone please help me?
This is driving me for 3 days night and day.....
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Here's what I just did and my Windows 7 PC sees all the folders under my Mac user name.
I didn't touch anything in Network. It was already setup in the WINS tab for WORKGROUP.
I opened Sharing from System Preferences. Selected File Sharing and after a few seconds, shared folders (user name Public) and users showed up. Windows Sharing is ON. I clicked on Options, checked 'Shared Folders and Files using SMB (Windows)' and checked my user name under Account. It prompted me for my user password. If you look under 'Windows Sharing: On', you'll see this "Windows users can access shared folders on this computer, and administrators all volumes, at \\192.168.1.xx." <--- internal IP address of your Mac.
Then, I went over to my Windows 7 PC and mapped a drive to my MacBook Pro's internal IP address. I was prompted for my userID and password which I filled in with my Mac logged in userID/password. All the folders under my Mac user account appeared and I am able to open them. This may be all you need to do. Map the Mac internal IP to a drive letter in Windows 7.

Shared Files with Windows

I enjoy my MAC as does my wife, but she still has her Windows PC. Occasionally I will be in a file and she will go into it and not get a message that it is already open - the same happens to me when she is in a file that I then open. This happens in Excel, which I run on my Mac (Office 2004 for MAC) and she runs in Windows (Office 2003 Pro). It also happens when I run QuickBooks within Parallels. In both cases, the data files reside on my MAC, which she accesses. (I just had a thought - she shares under my ID, so perhaps I need to setup a new user on my MAC so it knows that someone else is using the file?)
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Is this something I am doing wrong or need to check/select to get the computers
to recognize when one user is already in a file that another user opens?
The only thing you're "doing wrong" is expecting a permissive libertarian operating system to enforce Windoze-like fascist/paranoid restrictions on what you can do with your files ...on your computer.
Unix doesn't throw a hissy-fit if several clients try to read the same file at the same time. In most cases that's A GOOD THING. Typically, files are viewed much more frequently than they're edited; so, enforcing one-at-a-time access is more an annoyance than a "feature." This is especially true in Real™ multi-tasking/multi-user systems -- where dozens of clients may be logged on to the same computer. Remember, unix started out in the multi-user arena -- and has been playing that game, very successfully, for the past 35 years.
Unix also doesn't assume that all carbon-units are idiots. If several clients wish to edit the same file simultaneously, unix is cool with that -- and even provides each edit session with a scratch-copy to work on. The original file remains unchanged unless/until the operator explicitly instructs unix to "save" the file by overwriting the original. When there's a possibility of multi-user conflicts, unix leaves the policy-making decisions to the warm-blooded system components. The usual/accepted practice for avoiding collisions is to edit a copy of the original -- safely tucked-away in your private home directory.
BTW, unix has the ability to enforce exclusive access, but in traditional unix programming style, most interactive applications take pains to avoid unnecessary interference with the operator.
...Ben Franklin would have groked unix,
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Hi franki, I'm glad those web sites were useful.
Unfortunately I can't advise about your remaining problem because I don't have a suitable Windows computer to try things out on. Maybe somebody else here can.
I'd suggest you give a few more details about exactly how far you get and at which point things get stuck.
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hi everyone,
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