Windows network - can't see "real" network drives

Hi all-
I'm hooked up to a Windows network and until my last (standard) password change, things worked ok.
Now, although I can see the network drives, and attempt to connect, I get an error message saying that
"The alias "Server20" could not be opened, because the original item cannot be found."
If I attempt "Fix Alias...", the network drive is grayed out.
Does anyone know how to address this?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Andrew

Hi,
I just had this problem. I tried to turn of the firewall of my XP computer which solved the problem. But since I do not want my firewall to be off I tried to search the settings of the firewall, and the I found that I had limited the access to shares to one other XP computer on my network. This is smart to to because it narrows down the security risk of having shares while you are connected to the network. So I simply added the new mac to the list of IP adresses that could access the shares on the XP computer. Which solved it.
The setting can be found in your local area network setting->Advanced->Settings->Exceptions->File and Printer sharing->Edit
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