Connect to other computer in Finder

When I browse our network at work in the Finder and select a PC it says Connection failed. When I click Connect as nothing happens. When I connect using Command+K or open a network location file (or whatever it is called) that points to a share on the same machine I can connect without any problem. If I use Command+K and only include the machine name (not share name) in the URL nothing happens also. When I am able to connect using Command+K with a share name for example the name of the connected machine show up at the top of the Shared section in the side bar but when I click it it shows no files or folders only again the message Connection failed.
I am using Leopard but I think I had similar problems before upgrading.

When you apple-K in Finder, you need to make sure you type smb://pcShareName, as Camelot has stated.
Make sure all the Windoze sharing stuff is set up properly, too. Kinda sounds like the sharing is not set up correctly on the Windoze side. Please be sure to pay a visit to this site, too, because it has a bunch of cookbook directions on how to do file sharing to/from Mac/Windoze, how to share printers, that are using either a Mac or Windoze as a print server, to the opposite architecture, etc.
Once you are successful getting these Windoze shares to mount for you, do yourself a big favor and while those shares are connected, create a new folder named "remote volumes" or similar in your home directory, drag the mounted windoze (and Mac, too) shares into that directory, then drag that "remote volumes" folder, that now contains aliases to those shares, to your dock. Then you'll have a dynamic mount for these remote volumes readily accessible as close as a single mouse-down event away on your dock. This trick, which I have incorporated and use regularly, came from a post I read that I believe (I think I think I think) was from BDAqua, although I couldn't find it just now when I went looking for it. It's a recent post. It works really well in Tiger (what I'm running), I wish I had known about it long ago, and I believe you can do this in 10.5.2 Leopard, too, as 10.5.2 has reintroduced, I understand, Tiger's "control-click-and-hold" heirarchial menu display in the dock.

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