Finder now showing PCs

Networked PCs are now showing up on finder automatically after installing Airport Express with Airtunes at work for my MacBook Pro, strictly for using airtunes. Why does PC showing up on finder finally working now? I'm happy but would like to know why is it working now? Master router is Linksys wrt54g.

Check your Finder Preferences - you probably have it set up to show hard disks, external disks, Bonjour computers, and/or connected servers on the desktop? You can also specify to show (or not) those in the side bar.
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