Re: My Network Places Display


"Chuck" <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:qg91h1h9j8umg3p6c2885u52vlfo7skrqg@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 05:27:18 +1200, "KiwiBrian" <briantoz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Steve Winograd [MVP]" <winograd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>news:5gf0h1hdqvqd8rp094ccfudajj64mkpjh1@xxxxxxxxxx
>>> 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.
>>> --
>>> Best Wishes,
>>> Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)
>>>
>>> Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
>>> for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
>>> addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.
>>>
>>> Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
>>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>>
>>Thanks Chuck and Steve, that was VERY helpful.
>>Brian
>
> Brian,
>
> Thanks for the update. Telling us what was helpful would be good too -
> what you
> learned may help others in the future, and that's the purpose of these
> forums.

This was the first time that I had come across the \\foo info from Steve.
Your Firewall info was relevant, and I found that I could just delete all of
the spurious folder entries that were in the wrong place in the displayed
hierarchy of My Network Paces.
So I am now a happy camper.
Thanks again.
Brian.


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