I was having a similar problem. I was able to fix it by going to my keychain, finding the entry for the computers I wanted to connect too, and selecting "Go There" from the context menu. Once I mounted something, the computer showed up in the finder. Hope this helps.
I tell you something guys, recognition of computers in the network are messed up in Leopard. Regardless of what systems are connected, Windows, Mac or Linux.
But maybe nobody needs that, so Apple decided to not bug-fix those "little problems", Leopard is the most advanced system in the world, or maybe not?
So or so I have the same problem and there is no fix yet, but maybe we can hope for a fix in OS X 10.7? Who knows ...
What is not true? The fact that finder shows networked computers only sometimes in the shared section or what are you talking about?
I don't like to have to use Connect to Server most of the time because Finder is not able to show my networked computers properly every time their are switched on.
Sometimes it also shows computers not connected anymore. It just *****!
Sorry, but not in my case. I have two macs at home and both have this behavior of not showing networked macs properly in finder shared section. And mac is mainly UNIX.
But that's interesting what other UNIXes do you have in your network besides of mac and maybe Linux (Linux is not UNIX), that you can say only UNIX systems? But anyway it's not important if it's UNIX, only the network protocol matters.
And it can be SMB, Bonjour, NFS, AFP. I didn't try it with NFS but finder doesn't work properly with SMB and Bonjour. It doesn't even show my external drives properly 🙂 Sometimes my USB drive has the icon of an internal one. 😀
What network protocol are your UNIXes using? SMB?
Did you realize that the time of our postings is different from our local time? 🙂
I've posted last message at 9:43 PM but the time is 12:43 PM 😀
Apple has some nice features but those bugs at basic level are not "advanced".
Anyway, there has to be some bug in finder because it's not only related to networking connections. Icons for external drives are also not showing up every time I connect them. Of course I can access them but not over devices section.
Right now I have an USB disk connected. In finder under devices one partition has an icon of internal drive (gray disk). On the desktop are both partitions with proper orange USB icons.
you need to set the local time you want in the "my setting" page.
time zone under general setting, I have it on CET/CEST (GMT+1)
but, I don't have that, and my mac can find them.
if I tell it there IP, and connect directly.
the icons for network drivers also show up fine, same with any USB drive.
a bit about two of the computers:
Windows 7 Ultimate, guest account disabled*.
Windows Vista home premium, guest account enabled*.
both allow printer and file sharing, without NLA (network level authentication, I have a laptop with Windows 2000 which doesn't support that yet).
on the one with Windows 7, remote desktop is also allowed, but with NLA.
I can use Microsoft RDP:Mac to connect to my PC (the one with 7) from my mac.
and using "go->connect to server->smb://i.p./" I can also access the one with vista (which is my mothers computer).
but neither show up in computer->network.
or under the shared header.
*windows will allow connection, but you need to give a windows login to get in if the guest account is disabled, even if it's shared with "Anonymous logon" and "Everyone", the vista computer has some folders (and a printer) which are used by everyone in the house, my own PC only has folders I need.
