Creating a shortcut didn't work for me, it simply said it couldn;t access the location and didn't allow me to make the shortcut.
What I discovered was the following:
It was essentially a windows firewall issue - to fix it, on the host machine I went to my Kaspersky Anti Virus - Firewall - Networks and made the 'LogMeIn Hamachi Virtual Ethernet Adapter' a trusted network. If someone didn't have anti virus I believe they could do the same thing form the Windows Firewall settings. I didn't have to do anything on the client machine
Also on first log in it asks for username and password for the host machine, for the username you have to do (hoSt machine name)\login id if the login id is local to the host machine; you can;t just type in the login id.