I had noticed a couple duplicates before (even with Mavericks) but now there are suddenly 5 "iMac"'s showing under Shared & Devices in Finder. What's going on? There's only one iMac and two WIN PC's on network. Been this way for years.
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10), iMac8,1 24-inch 2.8 GHz 4 GB
Aaaaannd it's back! 👿
Not as bad or annoying, only a name change to "iMac (2)" after powering up.
Only three computers on Wi-Fi network (1 x iMac and 2 x PC's) + iPhone. I even restarted all Airport devices and DSL modem just yesterday too.
Could it have something to do with IP address or "Wake for network access" (System Prefs>Energy Savings>) being ON as mentioned in other post? Regardless, I unchecked the latter one to try, but I'm not sure I'll really know since it's been so long.
Not sure why Apple is not solving this issue...
Can't recall what finally resolved this issue (El Capitan?), but it has never reoccured again.
Running Sierra now...
Why are there 5 duplicate "iMac" Shared/Devices in Finder?
