i have 3 machines in my house 2 laptops and one media centre machine Laptop 1 = A Laptop 2 = B Media Centre = C basically C is always on and contains my whole music collection, and both A + B can use all the shared folders from it, but when im browsing the network i can see and machine, but when laptop A is switched on i can see the all the machines in the network, but as soon as i switch A of, then im disconnected from the network and i cant see anything.....but i can get access to the system in question but doing "\\X\D$" any ideas on why one computer has to be in order for me to brose the network??