Networking Question XP and ME

Hi.

I just set up a home network. I am running XP on the Host machine and ME on the other. My question is that when I click on my network places on ME and click on Entire Network, the computer freezes up and I have to ctrl-alt-del to end the network places program. Am I doing something wrong? The name of the files that I am sharing under entire network is just a printer and a folder named Microsoft. Help!

Thanks
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The chosen OS' could have been better.. but anyway..

what protocols are you using?.. type of cable? etc..etc..

What sort of network cards also?

That is ok i figured it out. The problem was that my xp machine was firewalled. everything is fine now.