I set up a workgroup in xp, but clicking on it says it's not accessible. I shared one folder.

Network magic somehow fixed it for xp: I can now see both ubuntu and xp shares.

I'd like to work on making sure ubuntu is able to see it too (it can see its own share). The problem remains on ubuntu's side. After disabling ufw, I was able to enter windows network to see both computers (prior to that it said "Unable to mount location: Failed to retrieve share list from server"), but now upon clicking on xp, it says the same thing.

Once I get this fixed, I'd like to reenable ufw, but I need an explanation of the needed allowed rules: is it in or out, and why.

Here is the right command to allow samba on a ufw secured system,youn may also want to check your antivirus/firewall software on the xp box to make sure it is allowing connections on the following udp/tcp ports/

cifs 3020/tcp # CIFS
cifs 3020/udp # CIFS

Thanks. Does that rule imply a lan ip range? Otherwise it could mean those ports are open to other ip's.
I've tried disabling firewall on xp, but that didn't help. Still not working.

When the trial of Network magic expired it stopped working on xp, and now I don't see ubuntu's shares.