Network question. can't see my local computer

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I am trying to set network three machines under XP-Pro. I have established a
workgroup called HOME. Logged in as Admin, I have shared the folder My
Documents.

I have two questions at this point, concerning just one machine, the one I
am using now:

1) in My Network Places, when I drill down to workgroup HOME, it is
completely blank. Not even the my documents folder for this computer shows
up. I do not understand why. In other words, why doesn't the shared folder
show up?


2) when I look toward the bottom of the folder list in Explorer, I find what
seems to be a second instance of mydocuments, now called mdh's documents. I
can't delete the folder nor understand why it was created. Assuming it has
to be there for some reason relating to networking, Is it automatically
updated when I create a file and save it to mydocuments?

Hope you can understand the above questions. Everything about networking is
a fight and I want to learn how to do this
-michael




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Michael Hobbs
Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Hi Michael,

"mhd documents" is simply a mirror of the "My Documents" folder and, as it
is a system folder, cannot be deleted.

As to the network, on the machine with the shared folder is SP2 installed or
if prior to SP2 is the firewall disabled?

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Michael Hobbs" <mdhobbs@qwest.net> wrote in message
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>I am trying to set network three machines under XP-Pro. I have established
>a workgroup called HOME. Logged in as Admin, I have shared the folder My
>Documents.
>
> I have two questions at this point, concerning just one machine, the one I
> am using now:
>
> 1) in My Network Places, when I drill down to workgroup HOME, it is
> completely blank. Not even the my documents folder for this computer shows
> up. I do not understand why. In other words, why doesn't the shared folder
> show up?
>
>
> 2) when I look toward the bottom of the folder list in Explorer, I find
> what seems to be a second instance of mydocuments, now called mdh's
> documents. I can't delete the folder nor understand why it was created.
> Assuming it has to be there for some reason relating to networking, Is it
> automatically updated when I create a file and save it to mydocuments?
>
> Hope you can understand the above questions. Everything about networking
> is a fight and I want to learn how to do this
> -michael
>
>
>
>
> --
> Xmdhobbs@qwest.net
> Remove X's to reply
> Michael Hobbs
> Minneapolis, Minnesota
>
>