Finder weirdness - shared system does not display

[jasimon9]

Yesterday when I powered on a Windows XP system on my network, it did not show up in Finder in the Shared section. I wrote that off to typical networking weirdness. However, when I try to attach a file to an email, the mini-finder that comes up does show the Windows system.

Here are my questions:

1. What is causing the two different Finders to show differently?

2. Is there a way to force refreshing of the display of Shared systems so that the missing host will be found? (It seems that it is a common problem that systems will sometimes not show up).

 

[jasimon9]

Yesterday when I powered on a Windows XP system on my network, it did not show up in Finder in the Shared section. I wrote that off to typical networking weirdness. However, when I try to attach a file to an email, the mini-finder that comes up does show the Windows system.

Here are my questions:

1. What is causing the two different Finders to show differently?

2. Is there a way to force refreshing of the display of Shared systems so that the missing host will be found? (It seems that it is a common problem that systems will sometimes not show up).

I found the solution: Relaunch Finder via the dock context menu.