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Leopard : No 'Network' or Network shares in sidebar?
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I have the same exact problem. I can see only my MacBook under the "Shares" in Finder. I am able to connect to a Windows share only by doing the CTRL K and typing in the IP. I also have a Maxtor external network HD. Same issue with that. If I type in the IP, the share will appear under "Shares".
I am fairly new to Macs. I, like many others did the "upgrade" from Tiger to Leopard. This is my first major Mac OS upgrade. My questions are:
Is it best to just wait for Apple to address this?
How long does such a fix usually take?
Are we sure that Apple is even aware of this issue?
How does one get in touch with Apple to report such a bug?
Thanks, and I'll be watching this forum intently.
If anyone has a suggestion for me to try, I appreciate it.
I am fairly new to Macs. I, like many others did the "upgrade" from Tiger to Leopard. This is my first major Mac OS upgrade. My questions are:
Is it best to just wait for Apple to address this?
How long does such a fix usually take?
Are we sure that Apple is even aware of this issue?
How does one get in touch with Apple to report such a bug?
Thanks, and I'll be watching this forum intently.
If anyone has a suggestion for me to try, I appreciate it.
They have really simplified the firewall setup and so I think the problem for Bonjour and Network is all because of it...
I suspect Apple will roll out 10.5.1 shortly. The share thing only worked for me for bout 10 minutes after installation, it has since gone!
The only way to bring it back is to do the cmd K trick mentioned above. I have the firewall disabled and file sharing (both AFP, SMB, FTP activated) on but still no shared on my sidebar. Also, with the cmd K trick, everything is shown up as Macs computer, I want to see that crappy CRT icon with a BSOD on it god damn it LOL
The more I use leopard, the more I have the impression that Apple didn't quite finish their job, very disappointed
PS: there are big threads over at the Apple discussion boards, they'll address it soon, well hopefully.
The only way to bring it back is to do the cmd K trick mentioned above. I have the firewall disabled and file sharing (both AFP, SMB, FTP activated) on but still no shared on my sidebar. Also, with the cmd K trick, everything is shown up as Macs computer, I want to see that crappy CRT icon with a BSOD on it god damn it LOL
The more I use leopard, the more I have the impression that Apple didn't quite finish their job, very disappointed
PS: there are big threads over at the Apple discussion boards, they'll address it soon, well hopefully.
I'm 99% confident this is a firewall issue.
I turn it on and everything vanishes, turn it off and bam, everything returns. Exactly the same goes for my iMac and PowerBook. I don't believe this is coincidence.
Course other people may have other things also adding to the problem, but I really think that basically it comes down to the firewall. Turn it off, sleep your Mac, rewake it, give it a few minutes and keep your fingers crossed!
I turn it on and everything vanishes, turn it off and bam, everything returns. Exactly the same goes for my iMac and PowerBook. I don't believe this is coincidence.
Course other people may have other things also adding to the problem, but I really think that basically it comes down to the firewall. Turn it off, sleep your Mac, rewake it, give it a few minutes and keep your fingers crossed!
+1 on that. The leopard firewall even stopped my airport express from working (i couldnt print to it or listen to music from it). After hours of trying to reconnect etc, I turned off the firewall and it worked instantly.
1. Set your windows workgroup name in the WINS network settings tab on every network interface that is connected to the windows network.
2. Make sure that the windows service "computer browser" is running on the windows server
3. Logoff and login again.
post if it worked
Wow, thank you so much. Everything works now!
I changed my computer name and joined the global "WORKGROUP" wg. I'd send you cookies, but that would probably seem terroristic ....
THANKS!
hi guys,
- Is "disable Leopard's firewall" equivalent to going to sys pref - security - firewall and select allow all incoming connections?
If so, my firewall settings have never been changed, it's always been set to "allow all incoming connections". The shared thing just doesn't work here as stated above, i'm able to connect to other PCs on the network using the cmd K trick.
Also, how would one make sure that the windows service "computer browser" is running on the windows server? I don't have any windows server running on the network, we just have several PCs and Macs connected to the router through wifi...
Sorry for being such a noob and thanks in advance guys
- Is "disable Leopard's firewall" equivalent to going to sys pref - security - firewall and select allow all incoming connections?
If so, my firewall settings have never been changed, it's always been set to "allow all incoming connections". The shared thing just doesn't work here
as stated above, i'm able to connect to other PCs on the network using the cmd K trick.Also, how would one make sure that the windows service "computer browser" is running on the windows server? I don't have any windows server running on the network, we just have several PCs and Macs connected to the router through wifi...
Sorry for being such a noob
and thanks in advance guysAlso if this does not work for you try setting your router gateway address in winds under the workgroup..I did that and it instantly worked for me.
Doesn't work for me. My account is admin, but when I add the router gateway IP and click apply it does not retain the changes. Opening Sys Prefs again and then going to Network, Advanced, WINS, still shows the same settings. Am I doing something wrong?
Thank you, Thank you!
Okay I have been tearing my hair out trying to get to my windows shares.
The tip about opening a command window by clicking on the boot drive icon on the desktop, entering "command+K" to bring a dialog box, and entering "smb://192.168.0.3" did the trick! I can now mount my PCs and get at my files (such as all of my music, video and photos).
Thank you,
Neil
Okay I have been tearing my hair out trying to get to my windows shares.
The tip about opening a command window by clicking on the boot drive icon on the desktop, entering "command+K" to bring a dialog box, and entering "smb://192.168.0.3" did the trick! I can now mount my PCs and get at my files (such as all of my music, video and photos).
Thank you,
Neil
I think I may have narrowed this bug down to being a wifi problem. For me, Leopard is absolutely unable to find my shares (unless I manually mount them using smb) when I'm connected to my network with Airport. Curiously, connecting to the network via ethernet makes the shares pop up instantly.
I found that having WINS disabled prevented Leopard from seeing my Windows shares. Apparently Tiger could see them without needing a WINS server, but Leopard could not.
Configured my SAMBA box to function as the WINS server for the workgroup, and all is well.
Configured my SAMBA box to function as the WINS server for the workgroup, and all is well.
Huh? Can you explain the last part for us newbies? How to you "configure your SAMBA box to function as the WINS server"?
Thanks.
If your using an AEBS make sure it has NAT port mapping protocol selected.
Soon as I did this poof!.All my shares appeared.
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Well, I configured an old PC I don't use anymore as an Ubuntu server. It serves as a torrent manager, print server, file server, DNS server, router, firewall, and a Samba server.
I'm sure my setup isn't going to be all too common, but I thought maybe the issue I had could be a possible solution.
As I haven't used Windows' advanced features in years, I'm not sure how to configure a Windows machine as a WINS server. I just found that, once I reconfigured my SAMBA server to function as a WINS server, all of my network problems were solved. All WINS does is assign domain names to Windows machines, so you don't have to know the IP addresses. If a domain name isn't assigned to a machine, the network browsers usually won't work, since I have yet to see any network browser display shares using an IP address other than in Linux.
If you're using a Windows machine to manage the Windows workgroup, my solution probably won't work for you, but for anyone using a SAMBA server, it might.
For basic Windows networks, though, it's most likely a firewall issue. At my work, we get machines disappearing from the network browser quite often, simply because when the machines update, the Windows firewall likes to turn itself back on, and this causes a conflict with the network firewall. It's best to use only one firewall unless you know how to configure two or more to work together without conflicts.
I got mine working:
- Wifi with linksys router
- On the Mac: Use manual instead of DHCP for TCP/IP settings
- Set WINS workgroup to the workgroup of your machines
- Set WINS servers to router/gateway IP address
I'm not sure if all of it is required, but both my windows machines pop up right away
- Wifi with linksys router
- On the Mac: Use manual instead of DHCP for TCP/IP settings
- Set WINS workgroup to the workgroup of your machines
- Set WINS servers to router/gateway IP address
I'm not sure if all of it is required, but both my windows machines pop up right away
It tree view option "Shares" only appears when there actually are shares, it will not be there all the time. For the most part, I have had no problems with this feature after doing an Archive and Install from Tiger, however, on occasion they do not appear when connected, but when I Quit Finder from the Finder Menu and run it again, they are there, so it appears like the finder is not updating live all the time... a definite bug.
spoke to Apple this morning about this issue, spent 2 hours on the phone with the technician, he made me install Bonjour for windows on my Win machine, still didn't work he doesn't know how to fix it either, so I'll just give up and hang in there, waiting for 10.5.1 or eventually 10.5.2. My first OS upgrade hasn't been as smooth as I would have hoped
First the choppy dock, now this shared thing, grrrr
he doesn't know how to fix it either, so I'll just give up and hang in there, waiting for 10.5.1 or eventually 10.5.2. My first OS upgrade hasn't been as smooth as I would have hoped First the choppy dock, now this shared thing, grrrr
Short answer: Try relaunching finder. Go to finder preferences and show mounted drives on desktop. Long winded details follow...
I'm having the same issue. Right now the shared tab are showing shares from my network at home.. I am at work and can't access those shares, but they still show up and list all the share points. So leopard must have some sort of super cache that just keeps those cached thinking they will be available again, sometime, maybe.
I connected to a share with cmd-k like I always did before, but I could not see the mounted share anywhere. So I had to set finder to show network shares on the desktop (see picture). Did that and they now show on the desktop although they still don't in the sidebar. The really odd thing is in the open/save dialog it works as intended.
Also, if you don't want to do that cmd-up arrow thing to see mounted shares then while in finder preferences go to sidebar and have it show 'computer' in the sidebar, it's the same thing.
*update:
The shares showing up in open/save dialogs was confusing me, so I relaunched finder (cmd-option-esc, choose finder, hit relaunch) and now the shares show up included the mounted computer. I still personally don't like how it shows things so I still just click on the shared folder that shows up on the desktop
I'm having the same issue. Right now the shared tab are showing shares from my network at home.. I am at work and can't access those shares, but they still show up and list all the share points. So leopard must have some sort of super cache that just keeps those cached thinking they will be available again, sometime, maybe.
I connected to a share with cmd-k like I always did before, but I could not see the mounted share anywhere. So I had to set finder to show network shares on the desktop (see picture). Did that and they now show on the desktop although they still don't in the sidebar. The really odd thing is in the open/save dialog it works as intended.
Also, if you don't want to do that cmd-up arrow thing to see mounted shares then while in finder preferences go to sidebar and have it show 'computer' in the sidebar, it's the same thing.
*update:
The shares showing up in open/save dialogs was confusing me, so I relaunched finder (cmd-option-esc, choose finder, hit relaunch) and now the shares show up included the mounted computer. I still personally don't like how it shows things so I still just click on the shared folder that shows up on the desktop
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I made sure that all my Windows boxes have my server in WINS section etc. It actually seems to be working ok for me now. Computers are popping up in the shared thing when they are online.
I would still prefer it to show mounted shares under Devices though. Annoying having to go to the computer and then to the share each time You wanna do something.
I would still prefer it to show mounted shares under Devices though. Annoying having to go to the computer and then to the share each time You wanna do something.
Upgraded to Leopard and everything worked great. Went to work and no go. Got on the horn with apple and an hour and a half later, things just worked all of a sudden. Until i restarted. Went home and did a clean install, home network still rocking, but still no dice at work... or anywhere else for that matter.
update please.. ha
update please.. ha