Networking - seeing other pcs on the lan

Hi

I have my iMac and my Windows machine both wirelessly conencted to my router. The Mac just sees the PC and it's shared folders - didn't have to do anything. So file transfer is all dandy (from Mac taking files - not tried PC taking files).

I have a new EEE PC. From it I cannot ping the mac's ip address. Also it will not find the Mac using the "find computer" feature it allegedly has.

On the Mac I told a folder to be shared - I assume that means the PC should be visible on a LAN and that fodler available to be seen?

In Windows I could do start->run \\192.168.0.5 and find a PC. How do I do that OSX?

Anything else I might need to do to get this to work?

thanks all
Dave

ok i got it working if i set the mac firewall to allow all incoming connections. other wise i couldnt see and read the macs files. i could see it with just the afp thing but not read the files (from my eee).

allow all connections sounds well dodgy tho - is it?

Dodgy, yes! Does your router have a firewall? That way your in-house connections would be safe. But even so, you shouldn't have to set the Mac's firewall to allow all incoming connections, just SMB or Windows File Sharing.