Lion sharing issues

[Ihaveworms]

I find it overly difficult to share between Lion and Windows 7. First of all, it is a known issue that you get an invalid password when trying to setup a user account to a shared folder on Lion. Then, I could never get my DVD/CD drive on Lion properly shared. Windows was never able to connect to the shared drive. All the guides I found online was sharing CD/DVD drive from a Windows machine to mac, or from mac to mac.

Could someone tell me how to share the CD/DVD drive on my mac and connect to it from windows?