Please help, networking at work! Teaching tomorrow!

Hi, just returned to my work at school and I am having a problem connecting to the network at school as I'm a teacher. I just bought a MacBook Pro after 'donating' my ibook G4 to my wife . However, I cannot seem to access the schools network which I use to before on my ibook G4. I did, on the G4, use DAVE to connect and that worked fine. However, I have read and heard that in Leopard and with the MacBook Pro you don't need anything to connect to a PC network. So, after reading this I looked in the finder and, sure enough, I see the "shared" tab with "all". So when I click on "all" I SEE the network I can connect to. HOWEVER, when I double click on the file server I want it says "connection failed". I've even tried to use the DAVE 7.0 to connect (trial version) but that seems to have same issues as well. It mounts the file server but when I click on it it says "connection failed" as well. I tried to go into finder and to "Go" and then "connect to server" but what do I put in this field? whatever I type in this field, it adds an "afp:\\" in front of it and says "connection failed". I even went into Terminal and pinged the network and it does that fine..so I'm perplexed..is there something I am not doing? Please help as it's first day of classes tomorrow and I really need to marry up with the network here! Thanks for any help ahead of time!

Hi there ...
Did you check or post in the "Getting online and networking" forum? It's one category back in Mac OS x v10.5 Leopard at the top of the screen ...
Just in case no one here can help ....

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