'Shared' missing from sidebar in Finder??

I've tried changing the WINS-config, but actually the settings are never saved. I've tried changing my NETBIOS-name and even the workgroup, but none are succesfully saved.

Have you got the same issue?

You know, mine does the same. I change the NETBIOS name and the workgroup, apply the settings, close preferences, and then go right back to it to check, and poof gone! I thought it was my lack of knowledge, but I'm beginning to suspect it may be something else. You have verified it

I can confirm that I had 2 Mac's with this problem. And after 10.5.1 I now have 3. Before 10.5.1 a bunch of my NAS and Windows boxes were available in "Network." Now only Mac's show up. On my other 2 Mac's nothing shows up at all. This *****. Some enhanced Networking.

Try going to Finder > Preferences > Sidebar and check the items you want to see in the sidebar.

I Managed to get the Systems back. Here's what I did.

Open System Prefs.
Click Sharing.
Make sure system has a computer name. i.e. "bob"
Click Edit
Change local Hostname to "bob.local" (this will change the NETBIOS name for you in networking)
Make sure Use Dynamic global hostname is checked
Make sure Hostname = "bob."
Click Advertise services in this domain using Bonjour
Click Ok
Click Show All then Network
Click on your ethernet device than click the Advanced Tab
Turn Configure IPv6 to "Off"
Click ok

Now devices should show up under "Shared" in the finder sidebar and in "Network"

LOL. tried that a long time ago. 🙂

I had the same problem.
Until now. I have downloaded the big 110MB update from Apple website, installed it and did the restart. Now the shares are back.

is it just 'shared' that is missing? when I add an ext HDD or insert a CD/DVD they appear on my desktop but not in any finder window unless they are attached/inserted during system boot. this has only just started happening.
at the same time verifying the system disk throws up all sorts of permissions errors that repairing does not fix...

looks like a full re-install, unless someone has a bright idea


also just noted :
Aperture created files are now Locked by default - this is wrong and wasn't the case when i first installed leopard
Aperture Library has loads of errors which rebuilding the library does not fix
Cannot edit my Address Book in any way


All these seem to point to permission issues - can anyone shed light?

Also:

Dragging an item to the Finder Sidebar to create a shortcut has suddenly stopped working... [although the Open dialogue accessed from within an application does show the new sidebar shortcut!]

What is the name of the download and where did you find it?

Ok I take it back. After a few restarts, all the items listed under "shares" is gone again and Network is empty again. It's totally inconsistent. Not to mention I now have random lockups connecting to SMB/CIFS shares.

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For a few days shared showed up and showed all my windows shares...now it will only show mac shares...no windows, even though all my other windows machines can see each other...

I was also unable to browse SMB shares from the finder after upgrading to Leopard (including 10.5.1). I opened the console and check the appfirewall.log and saw the following:

Nov 17 08:02:20 [hostname removed] Firewall[39]: Deny nmblookup data in from [ip address removed]:137 uid = 0 proto=17

The application firewall was blocking communication from the master browser on my network.

After completely disabling the firewall (had to allow all incoming connections, which may not be advisable for all folks) my SMB shares are browsable once again.

This may not be the definitive solution for everyone, but it's allowed me to work around the issue.

Hi Sven,

i downloaded this one from Apple: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx1051update.html