File and Printer Sharing Problem

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We are using two machines, both Pentium 1.6, 1 running Windows XP with one machine connected to the Internet by broadband, and the other machine connected to the first one through ethernet LAN. So the first machine has two ethernet cards and the second one ethernet card. All Ethernet cards are "Digilink Digi5000-TX", though Windows shows them as "Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC".
Recently the first machine crashed, and I had to reinstall Windows. Since then the the Internet can be accessed by both machines but File and Printer sharing between the two machines is not working. The LAN cable has been checked and it is OK, and I presume so are the ethernet cards. The TCP/IP has also been setup properly.
Any help in this respect would be appreciated.

Can you provide us with the TCP/IP settings that have been configured by you so far?
Also the info regarding WORKGROUP names & firewalls present if any would be much appreciated.

also what error it throws up when accessing files and folders on share

u did remember to turn on sharing right ??

also did u try giving direct name of share ?
for eg \\machine1's ip\sharename
like \\192.168.0.1\dump
is that workin ?

are you sure both the computers are on the same workgroup?

do pings go thru between them ?