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.

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.

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