Malke,

Thanks for your response, and I apologize for being unable to describe
the problem more clearly.

Your instructions worked. On either machine I can click on the
"Network" folder, which opens a Windows Explorer type of window for the
other machine. Then I can use Windows explorer to show the folder I'm
comparing it with and can even copy files from one to the other. That
will work, but it's very cumbersome compared with using my folder
synching program.

I cannot use my synching program ("Beyond Compare") with this approach.
BC displays the file folder contents of two machines side-by-side and
can speedily synchronize any two folders the machines have in common.
It now works on only one very large folder whereas it did work with
several before I lost and recovered the file-sharing network. I'll
explore with the software company to see If I can display the files in
the "Network" folders in BC.

Meanwhile I encountered some anomalies: When I run a search for the
other computer, duplicate listings. Clicking on either listing shows
the same set of folders and files. How can I get rid of one of the
duplicate? Does it matter? (It might be causing some of my
problems.)_

Secondly, when I click on listings that show up in the two machines I
see a list of folders that differs for the two machines and I don't
know how they got that way since they were originally set up to be
identical.

Thanks again,
Joseph