So on my downstairs computer I am running 7 and recently plugged in 2 externals both sharing, but only one is really available to anyone.

My brother-in-law has a laptop with 7 which can see the shared drive just fine on the network and access it.

My laptop is a Vista (first mistake I know). When I search in the network it shows:
1) The downstairs computer
2) The two users on the computer
3) The router

Now on his computer the drives just show up. On mine if I double click on either user it opens windows media player and says I don’t have access to those users when I click on them in there. If I double click the downstairs computer icon I get the public folder and the printers, but no shared drives still.

Any suggestions on what is causing this/how to fix it?

Thanks!

Printer Media, Computers & Internet