Accessing a windows network through a mac

[cave12man]

new to networking through macs and just moved to an apartment where i have the only mac and my mates have pcs. when trying to open a netowkr connection i receive an error that says the alias cannot be opened because the original item cannot be found. obviously i am doing something wrong and have heard about mapping drives with finder.go.connect to server but am stumped. any help would be great

 

[mad jew]

Try following this guide to get your machines set up correctly.