This 'published shares' would all be wonderful if Windows XP and Server 2003 had the 'Directory' icon under Entire Network... but none of our machines have it (this network was upgraded to server 2003 from NT4 - not sure if this is reason we don't have it). Without icon it's all a bit of a waste of time. I saw microsoft article 329495 "The directory icon in Entire Network in My Network Places is missing" but thought there must be better way - please post any ideas on this as I feel very uncertain about placing a Windows 2000 dll file onto our Server 2003 machines. Why did Microsoft not support the directory icon in XP/2003 anyway?

Bryce2/9/2006 4:50:51 PM

I tried using the suggestion of adding the share into the AD and couldn't get it to show up ...

So, I went looked for another way:
I used the 'Add Network Place' mechanism to create a name for the share (I guess it's really a shortcut). So, for resources used frequently this would be quicker than browsing around the network to find them. Of course this doesn't help end users find these shares in the first place -- that's where the AD solution makes the most sense (if it worked ;-)



Anonymous User 9/2/2005 12:53:22 PM

instaed of doing all that clicking just create a new shortcut on the desktop using the following string:
"%windir%\\system32\\rundll32.exe dsquery.dll,OpenQueryWindow" and you have all your searches one click away on your desktop.

Anonymous User 3/13/2005 1:26:07 PM

right to the point

Anonymous User 12/12/2004 10:54:18 AM

Good article. I did have one "beef" though when it comes to looking for resources in an AD domain. Mark seemed to oversimplify the process of getting to shared folders. In reality the path would be:

My Network Places->Entire Network->Entire Contents->Directory->Your Domain->Share

That's way too much clicking to get to a resource and you have to explain the URL "entire contents" because most users never even see that option. You can of course right click on your domain and choose find but even then your up to 4 levels. I'm probably dating myself here but when I used to support Banyan Vines Streetalk system they just had it down. An F key combo had the entire directory at your fingertips from anywhere.



Ken Rinehart 8/23/2002 1:48:01 PM