File sharing help needed.

I have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router and 2 winxp computers.

When I go to My Network Places it finds my shares but they are non-clickable. They are listed under "unspecified", the path is correct under "comments" and "unknown" is under "computer", "Network location" is blank.

If I go to "View Workgroup Computers" I can work around this as well as "run" with the IP address.

I've tried Tomsnetworking.com suggestions in How To: Tips for Fixing XP File and Printer sharing.

Anybody know why My Network Places is jazzed up?

Thanks.

Jstin

Or, if your just trying to get to drives and not shares use the administrative share. \remotePCC$ to get to c on a remote computer named remotePC. Network places is a joke, was a joke, always will be assumably. Unless Vista/Longhorns does something dramatic. Worked with windows networking for 10 years. Used network neighborhood/places perhaps a handful of times, only when I didn't know the remote computer's name or IP firsthand. key to succesful windows networking? Start, run. \UNC or \IP

All Windows XP machines have hidden shares on the root of each partition

The root of the C: drive is shared out as C$
The root of the D: drive is shared out as D$
.... etc

These shares can only be accessed by Local Administrators of the PC

If you know the name of a machine and have sufficient access rights (i.e. local Admin) then you can simply click on Start button - Run

Type in ||<machine name>|d$

to connect to the D: drive

P.S> the | should be backslashes but for some reason double backslashes don't appear in these postings)