"99XJ" said:
When I click My Network Places I can only see my own "Shared Documents"
folder, my wife's and my son's shared folders keep getting that icon that is
associated with an "unknown" item. I have to delete them and start over
twice a week... how can I get their shared folders to show? I thought it was
an automatic thing when ever you log on to the network?
As you can see from reading this news group, lots of people have
trouble with network browsing through My Network Places. In my
opinion, My Network Places is inherently unreliable, and I recommend
not using it. You can spend a lot of time troubleshooting it, but I
don't think it's worth the effort.
To access another computer directly, without using My Network Places,
type the other computer's name in the Start > Run box in this format:
\\computer
To access a shared folder directly, type the computer name and the
folder's share name in the Start > Run box in this format:
\\computer\share
You can also create a desktop shortcut to the another computer or
shared folder specifying the location of the item as:
\\computer
or
\\computer\share
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