Help with Shared in finder?

i recently bought a macbook pro this friday and its the first mac i have ever owned. before this i have had only PCs. i noticed something on my finder that seemed odd to me. when i click on the "finder" on my dock on the left hand under shared there is a little computer and it says renae next to it. is this normal? what does that mean? when i click on it it says comunication failed. like i said im new to macs and im not sure if thats supposed to be there or not. its only there when i connect to the internet. could someone help me with this please its bugging the heck out of me.heres a picture any help?

It's a device on your network, either a PC or a print server.

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That particular feature has been discontinued with iPhoto 9.5.1. However, you can use iCloud to share photos via Shared Photo Streams. Each user account will need their own iCloud account and each user can create Shared Photo Streams to be shared with the other accounts. The photos in the SFSs can be downloaded by any account with access to the stream.
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Hello jupiter:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
Your post was not +"insanely long!"+ I found it most thorough.
You seem to have multiple issues - not just with the browser. I think I would do an archive and install to "eliminate" software as an issue:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1710
An A&I installs a fresh OS X while preserving your files, programs, and settings. It is ALWAYS a good practice to back up before software changes. You would, of course, need to run software update after the A&I to bring things to a current level.
Barry

Help with Shared Library Errors?

I am getting a Shared Library Error (The application "APP NAME HERE" could not be launched because of a shared library error: "1<APP NAME HERE><CarbonLib><CFMPriv_PrintCore>") whenever I try to open a non-Mac application (Adobe or Microsoft, basically). And when I try to print, I cannot adjust anything in the Page Setup, else the application crashes.
Problems began right after a Software Update: to 10.4.8 (and iTunes to 7.0.1).
Any thoughts? I have seen references here and elsewhere to various shared library error issues, with solutions that have worked for some people sometimes, ranging from dowloading the newest version of Quicktime to archiving everything and reinstalling the system software.

I saw you had posted in the other topic and were
advised to start a new one. But did you try any of
the other approaches?
Yes. I've been trying simpler things first, such as removing certain caches from my Library.
It helps to be
more specific about the particular applications.
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and In Design 2.0.2. Microsoft Word 11.0 and Excel 11.0 are the ones that give me the shared library error. At the same time (since the upgrade to OS 10.4.8 and iTunes 7.0.1), I have been having trouble with my printer, a Canon i850 (printer software quits with each printing, although the printer does print the item; and trying to adjust Page Setup causes whatever application I'm in to crash).
Did you look at Yo
u receive a "Shared library" error message when you
start Office for Mac programs for example?
Not until you suggested it. Thanks. It has some of the same suggestions, though — no new ones. I've been trying to avoid the archive/install option, but I guess I'm headed that way.
You say you have iTunes 7.0.1, what version of
Quicktime do you have?
QuickTime Player 7.1.3.
Unfortunately there doesn't (as yet) seem to be a
single fix for all these errors. We'll just have to
keep trying!
That's the sense I'm getting.
Thank you for your attemps to help.

Help with Sharing Screen Many Miles Away

Hi,
To give a background. My Dad is disabled and struggles to use his computer sometimes. He has a 2008 iMac running 10.5 and I live in Australia. I am wondering is there anyway that when his computer plays up and needs a setting fixing that I can control from across here to do the job.
I am on an iMac across here on 10.6.7 any help that could help our situation would be grateful.
Olly

As mentioned, there is iChat screen sharing. You can use MobileMe accounts, OR you can use free AOL Instant Messenger accounts <http://aim.com>. You do not need the AIM software, just the accounts. I think you might even be able to use a Google gTalk account. To make it easy you setup the accounts for you Father, and then talk him through adding the account to iChat.
You could get a MobileMe subscription for yourself, then register both your Father's and your Mac(s) to your account, then you can use Back-to-My-Mac which will allow regular Mac OS X Screen Sharing and File Sharing over an encrypted connection.
You can also try TeamViewer.com. It works very well.
There is also LogMeIn.com.
LogMeIn.com has the advantage that once the server is installed on your Father's Mac, it runs in the background and you can connect without needing him to be there. TeamViewer.com is just another running app, and as such he might not always run it, or might quit from it.
On the other hand, TeamViewer.com allows file transfer, but LogMeIn.com requires an upgrade to the paid version to get file transfer. You could always use DropBox.com for any files you want to transfer. By the way, iChat does allow transferring files as well.
You could setup a Hamachi (VPN)
<http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36286/logmein-hamachi>
network between you and your Father. Once that is in place, you could use normal Mac OS X Screen Sharing and File Sharing services over an encrypted virtual private network.
And then there is the hard way Configuring your Father's home router to port forward ports 5900 and port 548 <http://portforward.com>, getting a free dynamic DNS name from No-IP.com or DynDNS.org, running the dynamic DNS name updating utility on your Father's Mac (all the time), then connecting directly with Mac OS X Screen Sharing and File Sharing. NOTE: The Screen Sharing client does have preferences to encrypt all network traffic, and is a good idea when going across the internet, HOWEVER, File Sharing does not. If you want secure file sharing in this configuration, you would need to play other more complex games involving ssh tunnels. I listed this last as it is only a good idea if you are network savvy and familiar with ssh, otherwise I would suggest one of the more user friendly methods mentioned above.

Help with sharing/networking an encrypted sparseimage on a LAN

I have 4 macs on an ethernet/Airport LAN, one running Lion and 3 running 10.6.8. I have an encrypted sparseimage in a 10.6.8 MBPro which I want the other computers to open and access over the LAN. When the image is mounted on one computer the others will get a message that it cannot be shared now. If I dismount it I can open it on a remote computer. I can see it on only 1 computer at a time. I have marked the mounted image and marked it shared and have even tried changing permissions for everyone to read and write.
I had this image on a machine running Tiger and did not have this problem. The mounted birtual drive could be mounted on all the computers at the same time.
The actual file exists on a User who is not an admin. I have tried putting the sparseimage in her public folder and in the Users/Shared folder without help.
What am I doing wrong?
TIA,
Bill

sdchargersfanatic wrote:
I have 2 iPads, and instead of using only one Apple ID, we set up each iPad with its own ID, and have purchased the same apps for both iPads. Is there a way to share apps from both iPads,
No - not now. You set them up with different Apple ID's. If you had set them up with the same Apple ID from the start - you could share all of the purchased apps across as many iPads as you like. The apps purchase are tied to that Apple ID and iTunes account. So if you buy App "A" for one iPad - you can't share it twith the second iPad because that iPad is linked to a different Apple ID.
can I set up one Apple ID and use both iPads for that Apple ID? If I do set up an Apple ID for both iPads to share, will I lose all the apps on both computers, or is there someway to save apps from both iPads and then download them later?
Yes you can set up one ID and use it on both. Yes you will lose the apps from if you create a third ID.
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Help with Shared Libraries?

I don't have a "Look for Shared Libraries" under Preferences > Sharing (which the other two computers in my home do have), all I have is the "Shared Libraries" under Preferences > General > Sources (which this is checked). I have uninstalled iTunes and then installed it again, this did not work. The other two computers in my home are running off of Windows XP, but the trouble computer is running off of Windows Vista. Not sure if this could be the problem. Please help.

krysto wrote:Yes, I have used pacman before to install software, but what if I want to contribute to the development of a project?
Usually when you are developing software you don't install the package every time you compile it. You just make sure that you can run it from the location where you compiled it. That way you can keep the latest stable version that you can use for leisure time and the development version for testing. Also for contributing to a project you should directly interact with the project's repository (svn, git, ...). So I refer back to my first post here where the PKGBUILD can give you an idea how to go about compiling the source code yourself.
Just don't run "make install" because that will leave your system in a messy state, a simple "make" (with the proper configuration) should result in a locally build binary that you can run from where it was compiled.

Need some help with sharing files from a Mac G3 to a Mac G4

I've read through some of the forum comments here and checked with help, but still have a great deal of trouble understanding how to share files between two computers, especially when one has OSX 10.3.9 and the other has 9.2.2. I have these two computers connected with a router, but just can't seem to pass files from my G3 to my G4. All of the instructions I read are very confusing- subnet mask, IP address etc. Is there an area I can go to to get a better understanding? It seems like this shouldn't be very difficult. Is there an inherent problem because of the different systems? Thanks for any help I can get.
Dick Skover

I printed the article from Francine, and followed all of the steps and it just doesn't work. Actually, one of the first steps is to go to AppleTalk under the control panels and select "Connect via Ethernet" which I did, but got a "no zones available in that box and no options shown in that box. Is there a problem with the fact that I am connected through a router? Should I have a direct connection between computers without the router?
I'm also reading the files sharing section of David Pogue's book on OSX The Missing Manual, but still can't get a handle on it. Any further help would be appreciated.
Dick Skover

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