Sunday evening open thread

Just got back from a really nice Christmas party in the "horse country" of Virginia. Yes, hideously awful state politically, but they do have some beautiful countryside. Cows. Hills. Barns. Quite lovely.

And now, my final plea on this computer stuff. Argh. Here's what I need help on. I have a new xp desktop connected to my wifi router via an ethernet cable. I have an old windows 2000 laptop connected to my wifi router via a wireless card (or whatever). My xp has nice little instructions for creating a network. Windows 2000 isn't as clear at all as to how to create a network between the two. I check the internet connection in my 2000 laptop and it seems to have all the components like file sharing, tcp/ip etc. But what do I do now? I still don't understand how to actually "find" the other computer - do I need to do something else, what do I click? So far, I still have two computers connected to the same wireless router and no idea what to click to "see" the other.

Bottom line: I want the two computers to see each other on the same network so I can transfer files etc from one computer to the next. What in God's name do I do to accomplish this? I'd also like to be sure I'm not opening up this network to the entire world (I have firewalls on both computers).

Thanks, and I really hope this is the last time I have to trouble folks with this tech carp.