I have a strange issue occurring on my home network. That Apple engineers haven't been able to figure out, maybe someone here can shed some light.
First the tech details:
I have a super locked down home network which is firewalled to the outside world on a Road Runner connection using a Linksys router which allows only normal broadcast ports (80, 8080, etc) and one forwarded port for remote desktop to my XP box. I also have a switch (Linksys wireless router minus DHCP) with wireless. The wireless is WPA2, MAC filtered and the SSID is not broadcast.
I have four machines on the internal network: an iMac connected via wireless(Tiger 10.4.11), a Quicksilver G4 connected wired (Tiger 10.4.11), an XP box, wired, and a MacBook Pro connected wireless(Leopard 10.5.1).
The issue:
When I turn on "look for shared libraries" in iTunes on any machine, it not only sees my internal machines shared libraries, it also sees (and allows me to connect to) other "stranger's" libraries who are not inside my router.
On the same note when I open Finder on my MPB running Leopard I can see usually a half dozen available machines in the side bar that are not found inside my network, however when I attempt to open any of them the connection either fails or the machine disappears.
The reason I am concerned is that I have put a ton of effort into securing my network. I have some major concerns sharing files on my internal network, because I can not confirm that the "strangers" can not browse my library, or my shared files (I feel somewhat safe though because both my file shares and iTunes libraries are password protected).
Like I said the apple engineers have been working on this (for 8 weeks now) but they have no answers...anyone here have any ideas?
First the tech details:
I have a super locked down home network which is firewalled to the outside world on a Road Runner connection using a Linksys router which allows only normal broadcast ports (80, 8080, etc) and one forwarded port for remote desktop to my XP box. I also have a switch (Linksys wireless router minus DHCP) with wireless. The wireless is WPA2, MAC filtered and the SSID is not broadcast.
I have four machines on the internal network: an iMac connected via wireless(Tiger 10.4.11), a Quicksilver G4 connected wired (Tiger 10.4.11), an XP box, wired, and a MacBook Pro connected wireless(Leopard 10.5.1).
The issue:
When I turn on "look for shared libraries" in iTunes on any machine, it not only sees my internal machines shared libraries, it also sees (and allows me to connect to) other "stranger's" libraries who are not inside my router.
On the same note when I open Finder on my MPB running Leopard I can see usually a half dozen available machines in the side bar that are not found inside my network, however when I attempt to open any of them the connection either fails or the machine disappears.
The reason I am concerned is that I have put a ton of effort into securing my network. I have some major concerns sharing files on my internal network, because I can not confirm that the "strangers" can not browse my library, or my shared files (I feel somewhat safe though because both my file shares and iTunes libraries are password protected).
Like I said the apple engineers have been working on this (for 8 weeks now) but they have no answers...anyone here have any ideas?