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old-wiz

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Mar 26, 2008
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I have a new 13' MBP. Since I sometimes use it next to my iMac 24" I often plug it into an ethernet cable, although it does have wi-fi and it works fine. Tonight I noticed that if I have the ethernet plugged in and the wi-fi is also active, Finder does not show the iMac on the MBP finder window as a Shared resource, but the iMac does show the MBP. I can still connect to the MBP from the iMac and transfer files.

I rebooted the MBP without the ethernet cable and now Finder shows the iMac in the Shared computers.

I was wondering if anyone has any ideas why it does this? It's not a problem, I'm just wondering.
 
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