Windows Sharing Question

I had to bite the bullet and get a PC Laptop (XPsp2)for work. I'm now trying to get it integrated into my home network with a couple of Macs (10.3.9, one wireless, one hardwired... both have been happily sharing files with each other for over 2 years.)
The PC's connected to the wireless router fine. I can get online.
The two macs have "Windows Sharing" turned on.
I type the address supplied by the Windows Sharing screen on my PC's Run window. ( \\192.168.1.134/myname )
The login screen comes up, and I type my user name and password and...
Now here's where things fall apart.
I cannot login. I get "The network path was not found."
I've tried the short name. I've tried the long user name. I've tried setting up a new user. I've tried both macs.
I've tried finding a parameter in my accounts settings to turn Windows Sharing on. (even though, from what I gather, my vers of OSX doesn't have this requirement)
I've read and reread several tutorials on this but cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong. Is this something they are not telling me? (for instance, none I've seen say whether I should login with the short or long name)
...And when I get this working, I don't want to be restricted to just a shared folder. That would be kinda lame, but I suppose it would be something.
Thanks.

I think that you need to also set the share permissions on the folder you want to share with the Windows machine.
In 10.4.9 there is a second button on the sharing tab for Windows Sharing to enable the permissions.
Try using SharePoints to set the folder permissions
http://hornware.com/sharepoints/

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iFelix...
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