Trying to see new windows computer on the network.. but I cant. Help?

I can see the old windows PC on the network just fine. I open up a finder window, click on Network in the upper left hand, and in there click on "Charter" whatever that is (its actually our ISP but I dont know why its in there) and I see the other PC. Both PC's are running WinXP. This Mac is running 10.3.9. I cant figure it out. Any thoughts? Thanks,
Chris

If you want to see the Network, you need to go into Finder->Preferences, select the sidebar tab and then make sure there is a checkbox next to Computer at the top of the list. After you enable this, your computer's name will show on the sidebar and you should be able to get the Network listing from within there.
I found that I had to turn off the Leopard firewall in order to be able to see machines on the local network. I had previously put it into stealth mode.

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