Mac and PC not filesharing

[divinityman]

Hello I am sort of a Mac noob so here goes.

I have always used windows, never mac, but recently I had to get a mac for a class and I want to learn more about it so I have been playing around with it and both the mac and windows machine are both on the same network.  However I have file sharing set up to allow both machines to share anything on the hard drive, the mac can access the windows machine fine, it asks me for my windows user name and password and it works.  But the windows cannot access anything on the mac except for the public folder. I have the security settings on the mac to allow file sharing, but it is not allowing my windows machine to access it, my windows machine does not even ask me for my mac user name and password.  I have tried the genius bar at my local apple store, I have tried calling Microsoft and Apple and no one can help me, the windows machine is a Asus with 4 gigs of ddr2 Intel core 2 duo at 2.1ghz
the mac is a regular MacBook with 2 gigs of ram and a Intel core 2 duo I do n ot know the processor speed, the windows machine is running vista sp1 and the Mac is running snowleapord thank you any help you can provide would help

ps the employee at the apple store told me about this website I hope you can help thank you in advance

[KiwiGod]

try accessing one of the shares directly as opposed to just trying the ip/hostname.  for example:

\\[mac's  ip]\[username]


you can see all the share names on your mac by opening up terminal and running:

smbutil view //[username]@127.0.0.1

[divinityman]

try accessing one of the shares directly as opposed to just trying the ip/hostname.  for example:

\\[mac's  ip]\[username]


you can see all the share names on your mac by opening up terminal and running:

smbutil view //[username]@127.0.0.1

Do I do this on the windows machine or the mac

[KiwiGod]

well, that was commands for both, actually.  anything with backslashes: \  is generally windows, and anything with forward slashes: / is generally mac.  hence:

\\[mac's ip]\[username]
from the run command on windows

and the other one says it flat out...  "you can see the share names on your mac by opening up terminal and running"
smbutil view //[username]@127.0.0.1

[haunted_i]

My iMac was actually able to network with my roommate's Vista tower, but it no longer showed up in my network list after upgrading to Snow Leopard. I had to connect manually (command-K).