New Finder can't display Shared servers

When I installed Leopard using upgrade option, Finder started displaying shared servers where devices and places are usually displayed. Since I live in a student accommodation I quite liked the idea of being able to browse through other people's shared music and photos, but after i did a clean install my finder refuses to display shared computers even though i ticked them in the preferences. Any ideas on how to fix it???

Try Trashing the sidebar preference file; com.apple.sidebarlists.plist.
Located in ~user/Library/Preferences. Restart. Reset your preferences.

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Interesting suggestions but the problem remains -Finder (aka Spotlight) is not capable to find certain files.Period.
I consider it as a fault of the system because in comparison, a search facility of a plain Windows based machine is capable to dig out and display any file, no matter now deeply hidden...
As far as the suggestion above by softwater goes , well, I've used the additional foptions extensively and nothing produced the result needed -that's why I created this discussion.
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I am trying to share a volume/folder on a machine else than the server.
Just to be clear are you trying to "reshare" a folder from the server that is from a volume mounted on a different computer?
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