Need A Little Help

[miniwai]

Hello all,

I'm hoping you computer savvy guy's out there can help me. We have just upgraded to a wireless network which is working fine for everything... except I cannot open my shared files on the main computer?

A little more info the desktop is connected to the wireless router via cable and to a usb printer, everything works fine*. The laptop connects wirelessly to the router and everything works the Internet, the printer and I can access the files I want from the desktop, *but for some strange reason unknown to me I cannot access the files on the laptop from my desktop? The files are there in My network places but come up as a unknown file type which I can't open (see screenshot)

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance.

[sjaak327]

I'm not sure, I never use the my network places (and for a reason, it's damm slow most of the time)

To use your shared folders, why not go into explorer and map a network drive. Do the following, inside windows explorer go to the tools menu and select map network drive, now in the folder type in \\main\c$ to get the C drive from the computer called main.

Or to go to shared docs on laptop type \\laptop\shared docs.

[miniwai]

Excellent did kinda think there must be an easier way to do all this. Thanks sjaak327 sorted now. I should have just come here first rather than messing with My network places for about a hour