where is my network places/ms windows network in win 7?

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mavsfan

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In winXP explorer, I can click on My Network Places/Entire Network/Microsoft Windows network and see every computer in the domain. I find no equivalent in win 7 64, running on parallels 5. Network Discovery is probably how this should happen, but explorer tells me that Network Discovery is turned off. No matter how many times I check Network Discovery to be "On" and save it that way, it refuses to stay on. Opening same interface again will show that it is still turned off.
I am new to win 7 and parallels, so like other problems I am encountering, difficult to know if win 7 is the problem or parallels.
 
network places

Thanks for your reply. I am operating with bridged ethernet already. I see the servers in our network using explorer, what I don't see is all of the other computers in the network that I can always see in My Network Places/Entire Network/Microsoft Windows Network/(domain server) in XP. The reason I need to see this is we have a print server on the network for a large size plotter, but it does not have a mapped network drive, and am unable to add it to the printers using TCP/IP as I do not have a driver disk for it as it is 3rd party equipment.
In XP, this print server has a printer icon that appears in explorer view that I just drag and drop into Printers on any XP install, and I am done, no setup, no fuss, no driver disk necessary. If I could just do this process in win 7, I would have gotten past this hours ago.
 
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