How to use net view for shared network resources in XP

In my previous post,I described tweaking up My Network Places to make it run faster.

This was a GUI tool to view other networked computers,is there any way to do the same from command prompt?
Of course there is and is very cool.The in-built net utility has many versatile uses and checking out shared resources on other machines is just one of them

To use it :
1.Open command prompt – Start>Run>cmd

2.Type net view \ to connect to it and check out the shared resources on that box.

I have a box called AVP-XP which has a logs folder that are shared across the LAN,so I type:

net view \AVP-XP

This will display all folders and other objects that are network shared.

There are many other uses of net command,feel free to try them out.They can be a real time savers.

Hope this has been an informative post.
Peace.

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