Re: My Network Places Display

In article <deojvd$60a$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "KiwiBrian"
<briantoz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I am setting up my home network of 4 PCs.
>1 Laptop with XP Home, and 3 Desktops with XP Pro.
>The networking seems to be OK, altho not fully tested yet.
>But my query at the mo is:-
>On the Laptop when I open My Network Places in Windows Explorer, I see all
>of the network shared folders at the same level in the displayed hierarchy
>as Entire Network.
>If I drill down to Mshome which is where everything is displayed on the
>other PCs, I get an error message that it is not accessible, and that I may
>not have permission etc., etc.
>On one of the Desktops there is just one of the other PCs shared folders
>displaying at the same level as Entire Network, in addition to being in the
>right place in Mshome folder.
>I assume that everything should display on each computer in Mshome and
>nowhere else.
>If so, how do I achieve this?
>I hope this means something to someone who can point me in the right
>direction.
>TIA
>Brian Tozer

All shared folders on all computers should appear in My Network
Places, as they do on the Laptop, if you've told the computer to
automatically search for network folders and printers. To see that
setting, click Tools | Folder Options and look at the first item under
"Advanced settings".

You can manually add a shared folder to My Network Places. Open My
Computer, click "My Network Places", click "Add a network place", and
follow the prompts.

As you can see from this news group, browsing workgroups and computers
through My Network Places in a Windows XP network is unreliable and
hard to get working properly. If it's causing problems, I recommend
abandoning the idea of network browsing.

To access another computer directly, type its name in the Start | Run
box in this format:

\\computer

To access a shared folder directly, type its computer and share name
in the Start | Run box in this format:

\\computer\share

You can also create a desktop shortcut to a computer or to a shared
folder.
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