Network Woes

Without let­ting Apple Genius­es or Geek Squad techs touch our com­put­ers, is there any­body out there who knows how I can get my com­put­er (Mac OS X 10.5.4) and my wife’s com­put­er (Win­dows Vista Home) to rec­og­nize each oth­er on our wire­less net­work so that we can arbi­trar­i­ly share what­ev­er fold­ers we want with each other?

That was more or less triv­ial when I had Win­dows XP Pro­fes­sion­al and she had Win­dows XP Home, but now that we’re both using pre­sum­ably bet­ter oper­at­ing sys­tems, the task seems a bit insurmountable.

At this point, I still can’t see her com­put­er (or any net­work loca­tions) in Find­er on my com­put­er, but she is able to see my com­put­er from hers. She can even go into the two dif­fer­ent default shared fold­ers (one for each of our accounts) on my com­put­er from hers. How­ev­er, she is unable to access the drop­box in either shared folder.

I know Apple and Microsoft are antag­o­nis­tic toward one anoth­er, but this is ridiculous.

(Oh, and please don’t refer me to Apple’s sup­port site; I’ve read arti­cle after arti­cle on there to no avail. ;)