Re: Windows Xp networking Problem
 

Can you do \\computername\share or \\ip\share?

If \\computername\share does not work, but \\ip\share works, you likely have dns issues, which are pretty difficult to resolve with a normal home router, as they often don't provide a true dns server.

It's often better to browse right to a computer instead of using network neighborhood, or "my network places" in 2003/xp. You can use map network drive \ map printer share with auto-reconnect on login, and it will always show up.

Al:
Sort of unrelated, but if you do a "connect to server" in finder, and do smb://ip/sharename, you should be able to connect to windows shares on the mac even if they dont show up when you browse the network.

Re: Windows Xp networking Problem
 

I had to set a permanent IP for the second router and the printer. Even though all computers could see the internet portal through the DSL connection on router 1, they couldn't see the computers attached on that router. By setting a permanent ID on the second router and setting that as a legal path on the first router, I could still invoke DHCP and the first router would see traffic from the second. For some reason, still not clear to me, the sharing on various computers seems to disappear at times. REsetting is a hassle but necessary.

Re: Windows Xp networking Problem
 

Gee, I had a problem with a linksys wireless and XP, for me the issue was my data encryption, I needed to set the password on the XP machine. The thing that was confusing is that the linksys generated a huge table off of my password, however the XP only needed the contents of the first box, if you try to put it all in it will not work, I found out the hard way. I know this sounds a bit cryptic, but when you open the security settings for both XP and the linksys it should make sense. I don't know that this is your problem, but it was all that was keeping me from connecting. Anyway, good luck with it.