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Networked machines not showing under 'shared' in Finder sidebar.
I know this was a common problem when Leopard first came out but with all the updates (I'm at 10.5.3) the feeling I get from Googling around is that most people seem to get network shares appearing OK now.
However, I'm still not seeing my home network of PCs showing in Finder so I thought I'd try to debug the problem again.
I have Googled further for a solution and searched here and tried everything I've found.
Here's where I'm at:
1. Took my macbook to a friends (5 PCs via a Netgear router a mix of Vista, XP and 98!). Open the lid from sleep. Within seconds all 5 PCs appeared in the the Finder sidebar.
2. Tried the same thing at home (3 vista desktops, 1 vista laptop, 1 xp laptop, same netgear router) - none show under 'shared'
3. Using cmd+k, entering an IP address works fine. I can copy to and from all of my network estate this way.
4. MS Remote desktop works with all of my networked machines.
5. All of my networked PCs can access my mac shared folders
6. the behaviour is the same whether connected by wi-fi or cable
7. The symptoms suggest it's my router blocking some kind of information that's required for detection so I've reset my router back to factory defaults (as my friends is set that way), but no change.
8. Installed bonjour for windows, can now chat between machines using adium on the mac and pidgin on the PCs, so bonjour seems to be broadcasting/working OK.
9. Turned off IPv6 and flushed the cache
10. The only advice I've seen but not tried it to delete the folder Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences/System Configuration - I haven't tried this as I'd like some options from members here as to what I might lose or endanger by deleting that folder
Networking, seems to be working fine as far as configuration/firewall setup etc is concerned but my machines just don't want to appear under shared in finder.
Anyone any ideas why? and ideally any ideas on a fix?
I know this was a common problem when Leopard first came out but with all the updates (I'm at 10.5.3) the feeling I get from Googling around is that most people seem to get network shares appearing OK now.
However, I'm still not seeing my home network of PCs showing in Finder so I thought I'd try to debug the problem again.
I have Googled further for a solution and searched here and tried everything I've found.
Here's where I'm at:
1. Took my macbook to a friends (5 PCs via a Netgear router a mix of Vista, XP and 98!). Open the lid from sleep. Within seconds all 5 PCs appeared in the the Finder sidebar.
2. Tried the same thing at home (3 vista desktops, 1 vista laptop, 1 xp laptop, same netgear router) - none show under 'shared'
3. Using cmd+k, entering an IP address works fine. I can copy to and from all of my network estate this way.
4. MS Remote desktop works with all of my networked machines.
5. All of my networked PCs can access my mac shared folders
6. the behaviour is the same whether connected by wi-fi or cable
7. The symptoms suggest it's my router blocking some kind of information that's required for detection so I've reset my router back to factory defaults (as my friends is set that way), but no change.
8. Installed bonjour for windows, can now chat between machines using adium on the mac and pidgin on the PCs, so bonjour seems to be broadcasting/working OK.
9. Turned off IPv6 and flushed the cache
10. The only advice I've seen but not tried it to delete the folder Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences/System Configuration - I haven't tried this as I'd like some options from members here as to what I might lose or endanger by deleting that folder
Networking, seems to be working fine as far as configuration/firewall setup etc is concerned but my machines just don't want to appear under shared in finder.
Anyone any ideas why? and ideally any ideas on a fix?