A quick networking question!

If I were you, I'd do it the other way around and use the PC to connect to the Mac. Its waaayyyy easier to do it that way. Just right click on my computer and select Map Network Drive. Then put in either the name of the Mac or the IP address of the Mac. Then you it prompt you for a username and password for the Mac, then ask what you want to map.

On the PC Side, you can click on the start menu usually to see who's logged in currently. At least in XP Pro you can. Not sure about XP Home Ed. If not then log out of the current account on the PC and log back in. If there's no password for the account on the PC then there shouldn't be any password for the prompt you're getting, just a username, which I just told you how to get.

 

The easiest way I've found is to make an Applescript to mount the shares. Go into Script Editor and type in this:

tell application "Finder"
mount volume "smb://WORKGROUP;usernameassword@COMPUTERNAME/Share"
end tell

where:
WORKGROUP=the name of the workgroup your PC is in
username=the name you use to login to Windows (you can always make a new one in control panel>user accounts)
password=create this as well along with the username
COMPUTERNAME=the name of the computer in the workgroup (can be found in control panel>system
Share=the name of the share you are sharing

ie:

tell application "Finder"
mount volume "smb://HOMENETWORK;SouljasW135XCV@MYPC/Tunes"
end tell

Save as an application

 

Thanks live4ever for the detailed info. I also have been able to connect from the PC to the Mac and do it routinely for backups, but never been able to go the other way.