Why is someone else's server showing up in my recent items from the apple menu?
One of the items listed under "server" is Ron Greenhouse's Public Folder??? I have no idea who or what that is and certainly did not "use" it recently. I'm concerned that someone else may be accessing my computer. Please help.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
If its in the Recent Items, then somebody has accessed that server at some point. Recently? Maybe not. If you never access servers, that listingh will stay there until you clear it. Can stay there for years otherwise.
You were on a wireless network where Ron Greenhouse was sharing his Public Folder.
Thanks! It's possible that someone accessed my computer while I wasn't here and accessed that server. Just concerned because I wouldn't want this person to have access to my computer and he would have done this while I left him here alone for a few hours. I cleared recent items and it seems to be gone now. There's no way for this server to be "mounting" my server or anything though, correct?
No, a public folder is simply a way to copy files between to machines on the same network. Makes me wonder what he was doing on your machine though?
As Linc suggests, Ron Greenhouse has probably never had access to your computer or anything on it. If Ron's computer was connected to any network you might have used, at a wifi hotspot or anywhere else, and he had a Public Folder set up on his computer, it would have appeared on your computer as a possible source of shared files. That doesn't mean you actually accessed it, let alone that Ron had access to anything on your machine.
When I'm working on my computer at home, the Public Folder on my son's MBP regularly appears on my own MBP, despite the fact that most of the time it's empty. I've never accessed anything in it, though I could have whenever there was something there. I don't keep anything in my own Public Folder, so my son has no access to anything on my machine.
There's no way for this server to be "mounting" my server or anything though, correct?
If you have File Sharing active, and are sharing anything with guest access allowed (as Ron Greenhouse was), then anyone on that network could have accessed it. I suggest that, when you're on an untrusted network where you don't want to provide services, you either disable all such services or activate the Application Firewall with its most restrictive setting. Disable the firewall when you return to your home or office network.
If I were you, I'd be a lot more concerned about the fact that someone else was apparently using your computer while it was logged in to your account. If you care at all about security, that should never happen.
Why is someone else's server showing up in my recent items?
