[Tom]

Right, can someone, in language that Fred Dibnah would understand, please tell me how I can make it so that my XP desktop and Ubuntu laptop can share files?

Or if you don't know how to do it on Ubuntu, what about Vista?

Because I'm tearing my hair out here. I'm utterly clueless as to what to do. All I want is to be able to copy files around between the machines, music, video etc. The XP machine is cabled to a router. The laptop is wireless.

I have tried pinging each machine to the other, that works, but I can't 'see' any shared folders or anything at all tbh.

HALP!