I posted a similar thread a few days ago and I'm sorry to appear to duplicate them, but I honed this question down and really hope to get a definitive answer to this problem.
I've been told that in order not to appear in the 'shared' section of the finder on other people's computers on a shared network, I need to have all the sharing options turned off and so on in system preferences. I've done that. But I would still like my device not to appear in there at all to others, and I've in various places that's impossible; in various others that it involves turning off bonjour signalling, which may or may not render your network connectivity inoperable. But merely adjusting preferences doesn't seem enough: I can't connect to the devices I see in my 'shared' section, which must mean they've got theirs turned off, and yet I can still seem them. I don't want my device broadcast at all, if in anyway possible.
So this article involves an older OS than Yosemite, but the advice is that you can run a command in Terminal to turn it off: http://superuser.com/questions/154108/how-do-you-hide-a-computer-name-on-a-network-os-x-10-6
I'm reluctant to attempt that not knowing what I'm doing, and I'm not even in a position to test it on another device right now. Can anyone explain if it's possible or not and what bonjour has to do with it?
Thank you very much.
I've been told that in order not to appear in the 'shared' section of the finder on other people's computers on a shared network, I need to have all the sharing options turned off and so on in system preferences. I've done that. But I would still like my device not to appear in there at all to others, and I've in various places that's impossible; in various others that it involves turning off bonjour signalling, which may or may not render your network connectivity inoperable. But merely adjusting preferences doesn't seem enough: I can't connect to the devices I see in my 'shared' section, which must mean they've got theirs turned off, and yet I can still seem them. I don't want my device broadcast at all, if in anyway possible.
So this article involves an older OS than Yosemite, but the advice is that you can run a command in Terminal to turn it off: http://superuser.com/questions/154108/how-do-you-hide-a-computer-name-on-a-network-os-x-10-6
I'm reluctant to attempt that not knowing what I'm doing, and I'm not even in a position to test it on another device right now. Can anyone explain if it's possible or not and what bonjour has to do with it?
Thank you very much.