Network question. can't see my local computer

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Michael Hobbs

I am trying to set network three machines under XP-Pro. I have established a
workgroup called HOME. Logged in as Admin, I have shared the folder My
Documents.

I have two questions at this point, concerning just one machine, the one I
am using now:

1) in My Network Places, when I drill down to workgroup HOME, it is
completely blank. Not even the my documents folder for this computer shows
up. I do not understand why. In other words, why doesn't the shared folder
show up?


2) when I look toward the bottom of the folder list in Explorer, I find what
seems to be a second instance of mydocuments, now called mdh's documents. I
can't delete the folder nor understand why it was created. Assuming it has
to be there for some reason relating to networking, Is it automatically
updated when I create a file and save it to mydocuments?

Hope you can understand the above questions. Everything about networking is
a fight and I want to learn how to do this
-michael
 
Hi Michael,

"mhd documents" is simply a mirror of the "My Documents" folder and, as it
is a system folder, cannot be deleted.

As to the network, on the machine with the shared folder is SP2 installed or
if prior to SP2 is the firewall disabled?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Thank you very much. That command did in fact put the local computer on
network places|HOME
but there were no options presented when I ran it, and it is not persistent.
I have to run the thing every time I start the computer!

What could be going on that makes it necessary to run that thing every time.
btw: I have XP-P/SP-2 and (at the moment) Norton's Firewall is replacing
XP's

thank you for any help you can give me.
 
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