How do I create, access, and map shared drives/folders on my network in Vista?

http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=1753#map describes how to do it for WinXP. I didn’t succeed doing it with Vista. Could you please point me to a useful resource for Vista?

http://www.vista4beginners.com/Map-Network-Drive

Hope this helps,tim