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That's interesting. A senior Apple technical engineer from AppleCare indicated that the availability of the 'shared' drop down in the finder sidebar is completely network dependent which means it is VERY unlikely that it is a problem with finder.
Knowing this prompted me to take a closer look at my firewall setting on my router and also firewall setting on leopard. After disabling all the firewalls on my network 'shared' was available once again. However it was patchy, meaning it would sometimes disappear and reappear. It is my understanding than even if leopard is in stealth mode, it should still be able to browse intranet connected shares.
From my testing and also judging from other posts in this thread it seems to me that there is an underlying bug behind this issue.
On 11/19 I did a new, full, clean re-install. I applied all the updates. I can see my other iBook, but cannot see any Windows computers. I cannot browse the network from my MacBook. I can see my MacBook from the Windows PCs (the public folder), but not the other way around. I did a clean install just if my dickering around with 10.5 actually goofed up the network browsing capabilities. But after clean install and updates - and nothing else - no browsing networks.
You know, it really stinks being in a Windows-dominated area, like I am, and not being able to look at the network with the ease that I did in 10.4.
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OK, here is a work around, or at least a partial solution that I think helps break it down. On my two modern macs using wlan to the dsl router, both connect to the internet just fine and see the onr other mac on the ethernet lan to the same router, but they do not see each other- no ping, no connecting, nothing.
So, I created a local network between the two machines, then saw that both saw each other immediately, but took quite a long time (15 minutes or so?) to fully connect, using file sharing and screen sharing. Once everything worked properly between the two servers, I reconnected to the typical wlan internet connection, and again, the same two boxes do not appear as Shared resources. I have activated and reactivated all logical options which I think could influence this (firewall, dynamic global hostname, Back to My Mac, ...) and nothing has an effect, so I presume there is something flaky with DNS and networking in general. I also think one reason it takes so long for all the shared resources to be seen once the servers see each other, has to do with spotlight caches/metadata, which Apple has advertised as a feature- that spotlight can find anything (names and greps on files) on other boxes. That information has to get moved somehow and by definition the size of that data is not small- that data about everything on a machine will take some time to show up. Just my half a nickel...
My problem begin when I upgraded to 10.5.1. Up to then I had "Shared" in my Sidebar and access to my other PCs. But since the upgrade, Shared has never appeared. Called tech support and after nearly an hour, still no fix.
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The funny thing: I've installed 4 of my family pack, and the two Leopard installs in which I simply "upgraded", work the best. I have the most problems with the instance in which I did an "erase and install." "Archive and install" falls somewhere in the middle.
Interesting. On my main computer I did a clean install and that is the computer that is not showing the shared computers in the sidebar. The others I did a update and they work.
Like a lot of people my shared computers disappeared from my sidebar after using leopard for half an hour.
Strangely the reappeared again recently (after a couple of weeks). I didn't change a thing. Haven't messed with any settings at all.
It all worked great again for a while but now - all though I can see them in the side bar - when I click on them nothing happens - I get an empty folder appearing.
Same story here. "Shared" appeares and disappeares regularly in in Sidebar. When it is visible I can also see and browse all available shares etc. The cycle of appearing and disappearing repeates every 10-20 minutes.
But - as soon as I use Connect to Server (entering an IP address) I can always see all available shares. Then I mount any of the shares - "Shared" is always visible and NEVER disappeares from the Sidebar. The same result when I use aliases to share I store in a dock stack. This situation is stable until I unmount that share. Then "Shared" disappeares after a while and the cycle starts again.
So, there seems to be some logic behind it and it seems Leopard (if no share is mounted) discovers and loses the available shares over and over again.
This didn't work for me. I still can't get the Shared section to appear in the sidebar at all with Leopard unless and until I use Cmd-K Connect to Server function. Only then will the Shared section appear in the sidebar with the shared drive on the other computer on my home network there. What is wrong with this function?
I don't mind that Shared doesn't show up in the Sidebar when there are no servers being shared. I am very frustrated when it doesn't show up at all even when servers are being shared. Being forced to use Cmd-K to connect is a big step backwards.
The so-called improvements to the Finder in Leopard are mostly cosmetic and unworthy of Apple, being more akin to something Microsoft would do in Windows.
I have this exact same problem and have tried all the solutions here (other than turning off the firewall, which I won't do). Can't wait for Apple to fix this!
I have the opposite issue in my world. I hate the "Shared" section of the Finder sidebar. Its useless. I dont want my users to see servers, I want them to se the volumes they have mounted.
Anyone have a Leopard tweak or hack to get the side bar to show mounted volumes, rather than servers? I need to see the share points, not the server itself (especially when Kerberos is enabled - its just plain goofy. You will know what I mean if you play around with the sidebar in a Kerberos environment with SSO)
I like Leopard's Finder, but need my sidebar to show mounts like 10.4 (Tiger) did.
Dragging mounts to the sidebar will work (they show up as "devices"), but they are forgotten after a reboot.
I got a new macbook for Christmas (first Mac ever) and I was amazed that it automatically found my shares on my 2 Window PC's (XP and Vista). The two PCs showed up under the "Shared" section of the sidebar and it was great to just click on them and browse all my shared drives.
Now a couple weeks later, for no reason that I'm aware of, the "shared" section is now gone and everything I've tried won't get it to reappear.
I can still click "go > connect to server" and connect to them manually but I would much prefer for it to be automatic. WHY DOESN'T IT WORK LIKE BEFORE?????
Yeah add me to list of 'Shared' randomly disappearing from the finder sidebar. It's clearly bug as the terminal command 'killall finder' normally fixes the problem.
