Connected to network, yet no devices appear.
I recently reformatted my macbook and since the reformat I've had intermittent problems with other devices on the network appearing in finder or even in the Network section. Earlier today I remember seeing the other devices on the network, and yet now that I'm actually trying to connect to one of the devices, nothing is showing up on the network.
There is one iMac and one PC, and another Macbook which is currently being used and SHOULD be showing up, but none of them are. Going View>Network in finder yields 0 items.
This is very frustrating as I quite often have to refer to files on other devices on my network. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Ah. If you can use 'Connect to Server' then your devices are all probably on the same logical network. You need to work out why they're not showing in the Finder sidebar and/or to locate the IPs or the network names.
If you have physical access to the other devices you can determine their IPs and/or network names (the exact method depends on which version of Windows they're using) and use those in the 'Connect to Server' dialog.
The easy way to get the other network devices to show in the Finder sidebar is to determine which device is the Master Browser and either set it to transmit the proper info (if it's an Active Directory server) or to have your Mac take over as Master Browser instead. The simplest way for the Mac to become Master Browser is for it to be the first network device to appear on the logical network. In a home net, it's simple to just shut everyone else down and then reboot the Mac. In an office, this may not be so easy.
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