Just click the address bar, erase the text
that??™s there, type two backslashes (\\) followed by the PC??™s name (as in
Figure 8-18), and press Enter.
One reason why another PC may not show up in the
Network folder is if it??™s not in the same Workgroup as your
PC; see the ???What??™s My PC??™s Name???? sidebar, in the previous
section, for details. Of course, there are other reasons
why a PC may not show up; it may not be turned on, it may
not be connected to the network, it may not be discoverable
(see the previous section), or your network may be down.
See Chapter 7 for network troubleshooting topics.
Figure 8-18. If a remote PC doesn??™t show up in your Network folder, type two
backslashes in Windows Explorer??™s address bar, followed by the remote PC??™s name
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Once you see the remote PC in the Network folder, double-click it to see its
shared resources. Here, you should see an entry for each shared folder and
printer on that PC; just open the resource to see what??™s inside, and then
access those files as though they were on your own hard disk.
Remember remote shared folders
It??™s not uncommon to return to the same remote folder again and again. So,
why navigate manually through the slow-as-molasses Network folder each
time?
A remote folder has a path just like a folder on your hard disk; it follows the
UNC naming convention, which looks like this:
\\Xander\Desktop
This path points to a folder named Desktop on the Xander PC (presumably
Xander??™s desktop).
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