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Leopard : No 'Network' or Network shares in sidebar?

djellison said:
It worked brilliantly for 10 minutes after I upgraded ( "Look - your shared documents folder in coverflow" said I to the missus ) - but then I restarted my machine ( I hadnt done since the upgrade ) - and the entire tab has been missing ever since.

Doug
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Exact same thing here and I even installed Bonjour on my windows machines.
 
Same experience here too.

It seems sporadic. Sometimes the shares will show up, and I'll be able to see the available printers under System Prefs/Printers, but most of the time it's not detecting any such shares, which is quite annoying and definitely impairs productivity.
 
Everyone try this...

Turn off the OS X firewall.

System Prefs > Security > Firewall - Allow all incoming connections.

Sleep your Mac and rewake it (this seems to force it to rescan for shared resources). Worked for me.


Will look in to it further tomorrow, for now it's bed time...

edit: So long as File Sharing (AFP, SMB) is in the bottom option, this seems to work as well, and would be the preferred one to select since it keeps your firewall enabled.
 

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edesignuk said:
Everyone try this...

Turn off the OS X firewall.

System Prefs > Security > Firewall - Allow all incoming connections.

Sleep your Mac and rewake it (this seems to force it to rescan for shared resources). Worked for me.


Will look in to it further tomorrow, for now it's bed time...

edit: So long as File Sharing (AFP, SMB) is in the bottom option, this seems to work as well, and would be the preferred one to select since it keeps your firewall enabled.
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How did you even get File Sharing (AFP, SMB) into that? I clicked the + an typed File Sharing in and I am not sure what to select. I don't even see it.
 
This has been driving me insane too. I have an XP and Vista system wired to my AEBS along with my Macbook. I have an iBook, and XP machine hooked up wirelessly. All with local shares on, as well has shared external drives. All do not show up except the iBook. After seeing the Firewall post, I realized I had Little Snitch installed, so I disabled that, restarted and now I have 2 random PC shares that pop up (I live in a college community where we share the same router). My router is on bridge mode and previously it picked up EVERYONE. Now I still don't get my wired systems but hey, it's a step closer I guess. Try this and see if it helps.
 
Sounds like this must be a bug. I have a networked shared drive plugged into my wireless router. I can mount the shares fine by connecting to server, however none of the folder's contents are listed :confused:
 
No Network too!

I sure am glad for this forum. I was pulling my hair out (if I had any) on this one.

I loaded the 10.5 that arrived today at 10:21 onto my MiniMac first and ran into this problem. Other then this, Leopard looks good. I think I will delay upgrading my MBP until I see a little more.

And I have tried all of the above and have yet to see my network of shared PCs which run XP Pro.

Neil
 
I just realized those 2 random systems I'm detecting are from a different workgroup...Apparently, I have a whole bunch of systems connected to the router, 2 systems on the MsHome workgroup, and the rest on WORKGROUP workgroup. It's not detecting any systems from the WORKGROUP workgroup. Odd....If I can get it to see WORKGROUP, I think I'll be fine....any ideas?
 
I may have the solution! I just boot my vista machine on the MSHOME workgroup and VOILA! My system was detected by Leopard! Try it out!
 
Wierd...did you make sure your Firewall is allowing all connections and Disable Little Snitch (if you have it?). I just did this to my XP machine with 2 NAS devices and it works flawlessly! I think this is the issue. Does the system show up on the sidebar at least?
 
I'd really like to know if more people are having this problem? It's still going on for me and it's bugging the crap outta me!
 
I just upgraded to Leopard and I am having this problem also. In Tiger my windows vista PC would show up right when I opened the network folder. Now nothing shows up. I checked the firewall and security settings everything looks good.

One thing funny I noticed is iTunes song sharing seems to work fine, when I open iTunes on my Macbook its able to read the songs on my Vista PC.
 
Yes the firewall is disabled. The NAS shows up under the SHARED part in the sidebar, and the shared folders are listed in there, however when I go into the shared folders no folder contents are listed.

It randomly worked once, but hasn't worked since :(
 
I am also having the problem - my Mini is not always displayed in the shared list. This is clearly a bug that will be fixed. So far I've had success by relaunching Finder (command + option + esc, select finder, hit relaunch.. careful that finder isn't doing anything like moving files, etc.)
 
I opened up Macintosh HD and I did a cmd + K and had to manually enter in address...

smb//:192.168.1.2

and it showed up under "Shared" (below Devices).


Edit... found this..... https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/54704/

dogbait said:
I noticed this too (annoying). Go to 'Macintosh HD' in Finder, press 'Cmd+Up-Arrow' and you'll find yourself in your 'Computer' folder. There should be a list of Network Mounts, drag any of these to the Finder list of 'Devices'.

If you know how to make aliases from these I'd be much obliged.
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hagjohn said:
I opened up Macintosh HD and I did a cmd + K and had to manually enter in address...

smb//:192.168.1.2

and it showed up under "Shared" (below Devices).


Edit... found this..... https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/54704/
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Its still no good though. I want my network shares to pop up automatically in the sidebar.

The only theory I have is that Apple did away with that cause they assumed that everyones computers would pop up under the Shared list in the sidebar, and people would navigate to the network share they want through that. But some people disable the thing that makes computers show up on the network. My Win2k Server for instance, will not show up on this list. For some reason 2 computers have actually showed up on the Shared list for me in the last 24hrs and seemed to have stayed, but not my Server.

We need to be able to automatcailly show shares in the sidebar. I hope Apple reads this and patches it.
 
Mine was shared under "Tiger". Now have to go thru the "CMD+K" as mentioned earlier to get to my shared drives. This is pretty unsat. Also under the new "Sharing" in the Preferences a lot of what was in Tiger is missing. Not real good so far for networking...

Bill......:(
 
I'm having this same issue. Shared Macs appear under Shared in Finder, but not my Windows XP system. I can only access it manually through Go > Connect to Server.
 
Clean install of Leopard, it was showing my PC shares perfectly.

I turned on the Firewall........suddenly all shares were gone.

Turned off the Firewall, and after about 15 minutes they came back (I'm assuming a reboot would have forced them to).

Seems odd that the firewall would be preventing this.

-Kevin
 
teamshaw said:
Sounds like this must be a bug. I have a networked shared drive plugged into my wireless router. I can mount the shares fine by connecting to server, however none of the folder's contents are listed :confused:
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Exact same here, tried with passwords without passwords, different workgroups. I can put files into the share but they disappear straight away, but they appear if you plug the hard drive in by USB
 
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