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I just saw "Network" on my Finder sidebar and see an item named "sagemcom." There's no date and the Kind is listed is "Neighborhood". I also can't remove "Network" from the sidebar.
I have a 2020 iMac running Ventura 13.4.1 (a)
Can anyone give me information about this. Is it standard for a mac and I've just never seen it before?
iMac 27″
It sounds like you are on the same network with another machine, named "sagemcom", that is acting as a file server (or offering some other network service).
If you go into the Finder, then choose Finder > Preferences…
I suspect that the Network header in the Sidebar may only appear when the Mac sees other network devices which you might want to connect to, and when the Finder Preferences say to show these items in the Sidebar.
That leaves open the question of what is this other network device, and why is it on the same network as your Mac. But now you know what the Sidebar is doing.
It sounds like you are on the same network with another machine, named "sagemcom", that is acting as a file server (or offering some other network service).
If you go into the Finder, then choose Finder > Preferences…
I suspect that the Network header in the Sidebar may only appear when the Mac sees other network devices which you might want to connect to, and when the Finder Preferences say to show these items in the Sidebar.
That leaves open the question of what is this other network device, and why is it on the same network as your Mac. But now you know what the Sidebar is doing.
Presumably if you untick all of the relevant Finder Preferences (might be called Finder Settings in Ventura), you will never see the Network heading even if there are other devices out there on the same network.
Thank you! This helped for sure. I found out it's a Bonjour computer. I just don't know where it came from. Maybe from the Wifi printer I have installed? I've never used Bonjour before and I've been a mac user for over 15 years.
Do you know of a way to disable the sagemcom thing so I could figure that out?
If you turn your WiFi printer on and off, and there's a strong correlation between that, and the "sagemcom" thing appearing or going away, that might suggest an answer to the question.
If you and your neighbor are running unsecured WiFi networks with the same SSID (name), your computer could sometimes be "roaming" onto your neighbor's network or vice versa. WiFi clients assume that two access points with the same SSID are part of the same extended network, and may try to use whichever one has the strongest signal. I say "unsecured" because if the networks were secured, and a client tried to jump from one access point to the other, its communications would be blocked, and it would experience a network outage – rather than showing up as a device availabile on the wrong local network.
Thank you for you help. I guess i'm just paranoid that someone is able to gain access to my computer through this. But if that's not possible then I can hide it from the sidebar and not even worry about it.
simonsaysmatty wrote:
Thank you for you help. I guess i'm just paranoid that someone is able to gain access to my computer through this. But if that's not possible then I can hide it from the sidebar and not even worry about it.
I can't say that it's "not possible."
Sagem Network on Mac
