Windows sharing on airport extreme

I have a windows desktop running XP SP3 and a macbook pro. I just bought an airport extreme to replace my old linksys wireless router. Before installing the airport extreme I had no problem accessing my windows printer and shared folders from my macbook. Now that I've replaced the linksys with an airport extreme my mac no longer can see the windows shared resources. I've rebooted my windows desktop (many times) but that doesn't help. All of the resources are still listed as being shared. Is there some option on the airport extreme that I have to enable?
Victo

More information. I spoke with Apple tech support. They denied that airport extreme blocks any ports (and so there's no option to set). Yesterday, my two windows machines showed up in the finder, but I couldn't connect to them. I later rebooted the AEBS (for other reasons), and not they're gone again! I've tried running the program smbclient from the terminal, and it can find the windows computer names, but when it tries to communicate with them it times out. I've checked with a port scanner that the relevant port (138, 138 and 445) are open on the windows machine. I'm really at a loss of what to do. Any suggestions?
Victor

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+"I've recently upgraded my Linksys wireless router with an Airport Extreme base station. Using the Linksys router, I was able to share files between my Macbook and my XP desktop. Now I can't seem to establish that connection.+
+I should have everything set up on both the PC and the Mac, so I don't need instructions on how to do that. The only thing that has changed between when it worked and now is the Airport router. I've been through all the settings and can't seem to find anything.+
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