I ended up getting the networking set up accidentally... I had been screwing around with samba for a long time, but I hadn't let windows take enough time to load the smb share... so I never knew it was there until one day I was browsing for the network and got up to talk on the phone for a half hour or so... when i got back, my share was there! I was like, no freaking way!
Are there any samba experts here? They'd be more help... pretty much everything I know I've stumbled upon in one way or another