In finder under shared there is a home pc i dont recognize, is it dangerous i cant get rid of it?

in finder under shared there is a home pc i dont recognize, is it dangerous i cant get rid of it?

so i have tried so very hard to make sure this wouldnt happen. i have a time capsule that only i use... and my family has a router that they use with a different network name. though i am bridging through that network it is a hidden network i use. now ill check to see if this is my moms comp but my computer has freaked me out with odd things happening for about since january when i got it.. so i mean i just dont know what to do anymore. trust me ive stayed up all night i even called road runner to try and get some advuce and they r useless. so yeah. whatevs.

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Hi
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the only way i can do it is "connect to server" (command-k) in the finer and use SMB smb://IP/shared name but it shows up under shared with an apple display icon and the PCs IP address. i was under the impression that PC servers automagically appear in the finder under shared with its shared name and a PC icon with the "blue screen of death". how do i get it to do this?
thanks

Hi,
One of the posters in this forum said that you had to do the change of workgroup in a Location profile that's not active. Then, change to that inactive Location profile for the thing to work.
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15-inch Early 2008 >Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo>Memory 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM>Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)
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I do not want to update to Mountain Lion again.. since the first time proved to bring with it crashing and lots of glitches. And, I only ever do totally clean installs, wiping my HD with a 3x pass in disk utility. Main problem: External HD's which used to connect to my network with the AE under the "shared" sidebar, no longer appear. Matter of fact, my Airport Extreme in general, no longer appears in the Network folder. Nor do I see the ext HD under the "Disks" tab in Airport Utilities.
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I spoke too soon, sort of. While the information I got from the Sonos website is accurate, and did indeed help in getting things started, the external HD with the enclosure I bought still isn't working! I even went so far as to reformat the drive last night, even though it was already formatted correctly. Just tried a few minutes ago, and nothing... The permissions look exactly as they do on the other disks so I'm not sure of what's up. At first, I thought that maybe Apple changed something about how the Airport Extreme sees externals, such as they must meet specific network based criteria... but then I tried a several year old iOmega portable Go drive, that I hooked up via micro USB and it worked immediately.
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