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Snow Leopard not showing computers on network

Hi all,

I'm not sure what's going on here.

I have 3 computers and 1 nas currently turned on in my network.

1 is vista
1 is my mac pro 10.6
1 is my mac mini 10.6 connected via wifi
Nas is Droboshare

I can ping all machines.
I can mount shares via cmd+k if I know the ip address and share
I can't see any of the systems in my shared are
if I do a Shift cmdk to open the network panel, I don't see any computers, nor do I see any kind of workgroup listing. I know that all of the computers are set for the same workgroup. All systems are also pointing to my DNS, which has forward and reverse entries for all the NAT'd systems

Now I have another mac, a laptop. At work, it's not sitting on a domain controller, but I can open the network view in finder and I can see all of the domains as well as any workgroups in the network. I bring it at home, and I was able to see both macs (although not the pc) in the shared listing on the left pane of the finder.

The Vista machine can see all devices on the network (the Macs as well as the droboshare)

Any tips/suggestions welcome.

Early '08 Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 3, 2009 8:22 AM

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donv_the_ghost

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50,930 points

Posted on Sep 3, 2009 6:00 PM

I am afraid that with SL what you don't see is what you get. Computers show up under shared only sporadically under SL. You have to keep using "Go to .... Sorry to be the carrier of bad news.

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TonyVega

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5 points

Jan 19, 2010 7:55 PM in response to Travis Johnson

I can't see my Windows Vista laptop either but my Vista Laptop can see my iMac just fine as well as other computers in my network.

Feb 2, 2010 10:17 PM in response to TonyVega

Has anyone found a solution to this yet? It was not corrected in 10.6.2?

Feb 13, 2010 6:53 AM in response to Nethfel

Same problem here.

Suddenly my MacbookPro with SL 10.6.2 is unable to show shared samba units of my network.
Also I'm unable to use my Canon shared printer.

Does anyone has a real solution for this?

Mar 24, 2010 1:21 AM in response to Hugh.digital

Just to follow up a bit on my earlier post & other discussions about the "master browser" issue, I've been finding that in my SOHO network, even with the various adjusted settings in both the Macs' & PCs' firewalls, the PCs still on rare occasions do not show up by name on the SL Macs...

However, what does bump reliability up to 100% in my setup is if some PC running Win XP ends up being elected as the local master browser (rather than an SL Mac). Then, the SL Macs can always see the PCs by name! (Yes, I know this is the complete opposite of the suggestions from many prior discussions... go figure. Sigh. And of course, this comes with all the usual YMMV caveats since there are no Win VI/7 computers present, the Macs are all running SL, and in any event the network gods may have decreed a different fate for you...)

Basically, I've added the following lines at *the end* of the '/etc/smb.conf' config-file on the SL Macs, so as to override the defaults (that either directly appear earlier in that file or are indirectly pulled in via the include of '/var/db/smb.conf', and which Apple doesn't like us editing in-place):

\[global\]
# Disqualify ourselves from ever becoming the local master browser
local master = no

As always, best of luck to everyone, and here's hoping that some upcoming SL update(s) will officially address these & other Samba/networking glitches (don't even get me started on the whole "name mangling" issue...).

--P

Snow Leopard not showing computers on network